Plastic Surgery Death in Aspiring Actress in the UK
Times Online UK
An aspiring 20 year old actress has died due to a complication of surgery to correct her chin. It sounds like she had a large scale operation requiring her anesthesiologist to place a catheter in her heart (probably a Swan-Ganz catheter) to monitor her heart pressures. Apparently this caused damage that resulted in her death in the post-operative period.
This is terrible but extremely uncommon. Only really serious operations require placement of such a catheter. I cannot remember the last time we used one in a cosmetic case. I have been involved however in many cases involving heart catheters and have never seen such a complication. It is still terrible when a patient dies due to any operation especially one that is elective. My heart goes out to her family.
Best Regards,
John Di Saia MD
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An aspiring 20 year old actress has died due to a complication of surgery to correct her chin. It sounds like she had a large scale operation requiring her anesthesiologist to place a catheter in her heart (probably a Swan-Ganz catheter) to monitor her heart pressures. Apparently this caused damage that resulted in her death in the post-operative period.
This is terrible but extremely uncommon. Only really serious operations require placement of such a catheter. I cannot remember the last time we used one in a cosmetic case. I have been involved however in many cases involving heart catheters and have never seen such a complication. It is still terrible when a patient dies due to any operation especially one that is elective. My heart goes out to her family.
Best Regards,
John Di Saia MD
Tags
plastic surgery death
posted by DrDiSaia at 10:04 AM
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