Grove v. PeaceHealth St. Joseph Hospital

¶1 The primary issue in this medical malpractice case is whether the trial court properly granted the defendant hospital’s postverdict motion for judgment as a matter of law. Here, the plaintiff patient presented expert testimony establishing that following the patient’s lengthy heart surgery, the surgeons in charge of the patient’s postoperative recovery failed to meet their standard of care, which required appropriately monitoring the patient for compartment syndrome, a known possible complication following such surgery, and also failed to direct members of *139the hospital’s care team treating…