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Old 14-06-2021, 09:35 AM
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Dying on operating table does not happen often. If the patient is not fit for surgery they should not be on the operating table in fhe first place.

Surgeon and anesthetist will not agree to go ahead. Also all death on operating table becomes coroner case and puts both surgeon and anesthetist in the hot seat for possible negligence and malpractice lawsuit.

Seeing people die in ER is probably what you were referring to which is common.
It's actually quite hard to die on the operating table.
Either a massive stroke or a massive heart attack. Nowadays rarely got complications from the surgery itself.

In the past , after a failed operation, the surgeons will send to surgical ICU with strict instructions to keep patient alive by hook or by crook for 24 hours. After that die, can sign up as pneumonia.

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