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Woman dies in surgery after hospital loses power for 10 minutes
The operating room:
a minimally invasive procedure,
patients can typically resume usual activities within a week.
During the surgery —
sudden and unexpected failure of electrical power,
ten minutes.
The loss of electrical power removed the ability to provide
X-ray images went dark,
and consequently prevented commencement of held
the stenting procedure
until power was regained.
Once the power had been restored,
doctors were able to complete the PCI,
but Dye failed to recover.
On balance of probabilities,
Mrs. Dye would have survived
but for the loss of electrical power.
Prevention of Future Deaths.
The report was sent. The room was dark for ten minutes. Somewhere, a protocol waits to be written.