Anaesthetic procedure warning from coroner after patient death

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By Sam Russell, PA Media

A coroner has warned that a common way of giving anaesthetic to patients poses a risk of future deaths, after a woman was administered too much local anaesthetic by mistake and died 3 months later.

Dr Rachel Gibson, who had severe osteoarthritis, had hip replacement surgery at Spire Lea Hospital in Cambridge on 12 April 2022, according to a coroner’s report.