News tagged with 'Anesthesia'

A 37-year-old mother goes to a tanning medspa to have liposuction and has a seizure and is now brain dead. The clinic was not licensed to do medical procedures using general anesthesia, and the doctor was an occupational physician, not a plastic surgeon.

Michael Jackson reportedly wanted the sedative, Diprivan so he could sleep, his personal nurse reports. He told her he was experiencing both hot and cold sides of his body days before his death, the same symptoms that sparked an FDA ALERT concerning Diprivan two years ago, IB News finds in this exclusive report. 

Children who have repeated anesthesia before the age of four, may develop learning disabilities, this published study from Mayo Clinic Rochester finds. 

The family of 18-year old Stephanie Kuleba speaks out on the Today Show about the decision to have plastic surgery and the homework she and her mother did to find just the right doctor.   The family attorney calls them "a couple of auto mechanics."

Boca Raton police today released the 911 tapes of the emergency call made by the clinic where 18-year old Stephanie Kuleba was having a medical crisis reacting to anesthesia. When minutes count to deliver an antidote, the tapes show there was a time delay.

Just how common is the anesthesia allergy that killed an 18-year old Florida teenager during plastic surgery?  IB News talks to the Ppresident of the Malignant Hyperthermia Association of America about the rarity of this genetic disorder.

18-year-old Stephanie Kuleba was supposed to have routine breast surgery in a plastic surgeon's outpatient clinic. Now following her death from anesthesia, the question is whether prescreening could have found her  genetic condition and whether the clinic had the proper antidote on hand that could have saved her life.

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