Legal Opinion
Wright Ex Rel. Trust Co. v. Abbott Laboratories, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided August 6, 2001No. 99-3331PublishedCited by 751 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MILLS, District Judge.
I. BACKGROUND
Eric Wright was born on November 10, 1992, at Wesley Medical Center in Wichita, Kansas. Shortly after birth, his doctor prescribed intravenous treatments of un-concentrated sodium chloride because Wright suffered from low blood pressure. The hospital stocked its unconcentrated sodium chloride solutions in close proximity to its concentrated solutions and, tragically, a nurse mistakenly gave Wright two doses of concentrated sodium chloride. The concentrated doses caused Wright to sustain severe brain damage.
The Wright family claims that Abbott Laboratories…
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