Recommendations recap - issue 7 [pdf, 1.4 MB]
...discharged. He made no further complaints of feeling unwell. On the day of his death he collapsed while sitting on the couch with his wife and could not be resuscitated. Sometime after the operation a small loop of the deceased’s small bowel herniated through the repaired area of the peritoneal lining, got trapped and was strangulated. This probably happened when the deceased experienced the abdominal pain after the operation. As his initial symptoms were addressed by treatment and...