Re: another girl lost in FL due to breast surgery...

March 26, 2008

Interesting that this article had to cloud the issue and call

it " corrective breast surgery " instead of just what it was. A boob

job.

Patty

>

> I saw this online tonight locally... this is a few hours from my

> home. this is pretty sad yet another young life lost

unsuspectingly

> to breast surgery - in a doc's office - not a hospital by the way.

> Just the way mine were done.

>

> I feel bad for her family and the lies I am sure they were told and

> will continue to be told.

>

> So sad - I will pray for them for sure

>

> Shari

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> Florida Teen Dies After Breast Surgery

> CBS/AP

> -03-26 17:46:26

> Health News

> BOCA RATON, Fla. (March 26) - A South Florida teenager who was

> captain of her high school cheerleading squad and had plans to

> become a doctor died after corrective breast surgery, a family

> attorney said Tuesday.

>

> Palm Beach Post/ZUMA Press Operation

> Gone Wrong1 of 4 A Florida teenager who was the captain of her

> high school cheerleading squad died Saturday after having

corrective

> breast surgery.

>

> K, 18, died Saturday, about 24 hours after her surgery.

> She was rushed to Delray Medical Center about two hours into the

> procedure to correct asymmetrical breasts and inverted areola,

> family attorney o Stanziale said.

>

> She went to her doctor's outpatient office, not a hospital for the

> procedure, reports CBS News' The Early Show. Both her plastic

> surgeon and anesthesiologist were board certified.

>

> --At 8:05 a.m. on Friday went into surgery.

>

> --At 9:15 a.m., the operating room nurse said everything is fine.

>

> --At 9:45 a.m., the doctor said that there is a problem and that

> paramedics are on their way.

>

> --At around 11:30 a.m., at the Delray Medical Center, the doctor

> tells family that they believe suffered from malignant

> hyperthermia and is placed in intensive care.

>

> Lukash said doctors can use Dantrolene - which is " the ultimate and

> end all treatment " for this malignant hyperthermia - but that it

> must be started immediately once symptoms occur.

>

> " This was something that was believed to be a routine procedure, "

> said Stanziale, who added that it was too early to determine if any

> legal action would be taken. " There was never any indication that

> she was not going to walk out of that surgical suite. It's

obviously

> devastating. "

>

> A message left after-hours at the clinic where Kuleba's surgery was

> performed was not immediately returned and a telephone listing for

> the Kuleba family was unavailable.

>

> Grieving friends turned Kuleba's parking space at a Boca Raton high

> school into a makeshift memorial with flowers, candles and a teddy

> bear. Friends called Kuleba " Sunshine " because of her blonde hair

> and smile.

>

> " I have chills right now just thinking about it, "

>

March 26, 2008