Daily buzz: What killed this liposuction patient?

LIPOSUCTION INQUEST HEARS DETAILS

Lauren Edgar was 28 when she booked herself in for liposuction surgery. She died five days later.

Now an inquest into her death has heard she likely died from a rare, one-in-a-million infection called gas gangrene. The ABC reported:

Dr Phillip Griffin, a senior plastic and reconstructive surgeon at Flinders Medical Centre in Adelaide, told the inquest that he thinks the most likely cause of Ms Edgar’s infection was germs from the skin surface entering the wounds.

“It remains my opinion that the organisms did enter during the time of the liposuction, probably entering through the left thigh,” he told the inquest,” he said.

“It is very difficult for most doctors to diagnose, a patient can become very unwell very quickly and until that occurs it might be very difficult to diagnose gas gangrene at all until the classical signs emerge.”

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