An elderly woman with breast cancer who went into surgery for a mastectomy died after a breathing tube was mistakenly inserted into her oesophagus. Health New Zealand described the death as a “perfect ...

who was admitted for surgery in 2021. Soon after being anaesthetised, her oxygen levels dropped and she showed no trace of carbon dioxide, the HDC report read. The anaesthetist had placed a breathing ...

SAN DIEGO — "I'm crying inside. Every day I cry inside," said Deane Tillett when describing the pain he has felt since his wife Latresia died during a routine surgery at UC San Diego Medical Center in ...

An elderly woman died after a breathing tube was mistakenly inserted into her oesophagus during surgery.¶ Carolyn Cooper found Health NZ ...

A woman died when a breathing tube was inserted into her food pipe instead of her wind pipe for 17 minutes during an operation at an Auckland hospital. She suffered an unsurvivable brain injury. The ...