Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, with one bill of costs.
The plaintiff's decedent, a patient of the defendant doctor John D'Anna, was admitted to the defendant Staten Island University Hospital (hereinafter SIUH) for the reversal of a colostomy procedure. During the hospitalization, a triple-lumen catheter was inserted into the decedent's femoral vein by the hospital staff. Five days after the catheter was removed, the decedent suffered a pulmonary embolism...
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