Jones v. New Hanover Memorial Hospital

BECTON, Judge.

I

The relevant allegations of negligence against the Hospital in plaintiffs Complaint are as follows:

The defendant James Walker Memorial Hospital (now New Hanover Memorial Hospital), acting by and through its medical staff, failed and neglected to have established at the time of plaintiffs birth a policy prohibiting the administration of oxygen in concentrations exceeding 40% fraction of inspired air to premature newborns, with the direct and proximate result that agents, servants and employees of the defendant hospital administered to plaintiff, levels of oxygen in excess of 40%…