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· 2/28/1983

Carranza v. Tucson Medical Center

Citations

  • 662 P.2d 455
  • 135 Ariz. 490
  • 1983 Ariz. App. LEXIS 418

How courts have described this case

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  • holding no expert testimony needed to recover on res ipsa theory for burn on child’s leg after heart surgery
  • concluding expert testimony was not required where a child suffered a burn on her leg after heart surgery
  • concluding expert testimony was not 28 1 | required to show a burn on child’s leg sustained during heart surgery could not have occurred without negligence because it was within the realm of common knowledge
  • patient's leg burned during heart surgery

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Judges: Hathaway, Howard, Birdsall

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