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Member Since: February 2003 Posts: 29,118 Send Message	Gwyn in Kent	Report	6 May 2009 23:12
	What an awful thing to happen after what should have been a straight-forward procedure. How frightening to think how events could have so easily been tragic. I'm pleased to hear she is OK. You and your wife must be so relieved, but it should never have happened. I hope you are informed about the results of a full investigation Gwyn
Member Since: February 2003 Posts: 5,066 Send Message	BrianW	Report	6 May 2009 23:02
	Our daughter, 30, single, living at home, went into hospital to have two wisdom teeth taken out under general anaesthetic. When she got back to the ward she was having trouble breathing. The "crash" team were summoned and she eventually coughed up a swab that had been left in her airway when the anaesthetic tube was removed in theatre. A few more minutes with her oxygen level dropping and she'd have been dead or brain damaged! The hospital are mounting an investigation into how it happened and changing their procedures to avoid it happening to anyone else.
	Researching: Sherwood (Kent); Jesson (London); Worboys (Herts)