Rare Complication Killed Hip Patient ; Op Appeared to Be a Success but Fat Had Escaped From Bone and Got Into Blood
Derby Evening Telegraph › June 25, 2010
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A RETIRED nurse died from "a rare but recognised complication" from surgery" the morning after having a hip replacement.
Derby and South Derbyshire Coroner's Court heard that Susan McWilliams was one of just four patients to die from fat embolism out of the 12,000 who had a joint replaced at Derby hospitals in the past 10 years.See the full content of this document
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Rare Complication Killed Hip Patient ; Op Appeared to Be a Success but Fat Had Escaped From Bone and Got Into Blood
Mrs McWilliams, 65, of Allestree, had her right hip replaced at Royal Derby Hospital on October 9 last year.
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