• J Perioper Pract · Mar 2014

    The power of Elaine's story: a personal reflection.

    • Jaroslav Kamensky.
    • J Perioper Pract. 2014 Mar 1; 24 (3): 50-5.

    AbstractThere will be few perioperative students (nursing, ODP) or surgical and anaesthetic trainees, who will not have heard of the tragic case of Mrs Elaine Bromiley. A 37 year old mother of two, admitted for an elective endoscopic sinus surgery and septoplasty, Elaine suffered major complications during the induction of general anaesthesia that resulted in her death due to hypoxic brain damage (Harmer 2005).

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