Thoren v. Lawrence Memorial Hospital

Brazil, J.;

The parties submit this case to this court on an agreed statement of facts. The pertinent facts of the agreed statement follow:

*329Plaintiff Esther Jane Thoren entered Lawrence Memorial Hospital for knee replacement surgery. Thoren suffered an ischemic stroke either during or after surgery. Her theory is that the stroke was caused by fluctuations in her blood pressure that occurred both during surgery and again the morning after. She later sued the hospital and the anesthesiologist group, Anesthesia, P.A. (Anesthesia), who employed the anesthesiologist. She designated Steven Laven as a…