Ms Sheedy died three days later in the hospital’s high dependency unit from “multi-organ failure secondary to the removal of the tumour”, a post mortem concluded. Catherine Browne, a theatre nurse who was assisting Mr Lal said during the surgery she “witnessed a huge gush of blood . Dr Helen Earley, a junior registrar, said she also asked Mr Lal “if he needed help, and he said no”. About 40 minutes after the bleed, Mr Kavanagh arrived and carried out a “repair to the aorta”. “I think, in hindsight, I would have had a second surgeon scrubbed in surgery,” Mr Lal said.

Source: The Irish Times November 06, 2019 15:27 UTC