Moon v. St. Thomas Hospital

OPINION

HOLDER, J.

We granted this appeal to address whether a hospital’s general duty to exercise reasonable and ordinary care to maintain an open airway in an intubated patient is negated merely because the transection of an endo-tracheal tube is an uncommon occurrence. We hold: (1) that under the circumstances, a factual question exists concerning whether the standard of care required placement of an oral airway or bite block when the patient exhibited agitation and began biting on the endotracheal tube; (2) that the foreseeability of the intubated and restrained patient’s actions are…