Healthy and vibrant law graduate, 25, dies on the operating table during liposuction op
A HEALTHY 25-year-old law graduate has died from a cardiac arrest while getting liposuction.
Dayana Loy de Oliveira Freire, from Brazil, paid BRL 50,000 (GBP £8,200) for the fat removal procedure with money she saved.
But during the operation on September 13 her heart rate slowed as her liposuction incisions were being closed, which culminated in a cardiac arrest.
A cardiac arrest is the ultimate medical emergency, when the heart stops beating, and the individual is clinically dead.
Plastic surgeon Dr Bruno Granieri and his team at Hospital Jacob Facuri in Goiânia, Brazil, tried to resuscitate the girl for three hours but to no avail.
Her devastated father, Duilio Alves Freire, told local media: “She was 25 years old, with no illness, was in perfect shape before going into surgery and came out dead.”
Police in Goiás state are now investigating the case after Dayana’s family reported the incident.
They are treating her death as “accidental” pending receipt of the forensic report.
Liposuction has a five per cent overall complication rate, with the majority of issues being minor.
However, research has shown that up to one in 5,000 procedures result in deaths that are unrelated to the surgery.
The procedure involves sucking out small areas of fat to alter body shape.
Dayana worked as an office assistant after studying law.
According to her uncle, Gilberto Martins, Dayana was a “vibrant” girl.
“She was a very responsible girl, educated, independent and always took care of her grandmother and mother,” he explained.
Luciana Castro, Dr Bruno’s lawyer said the medic deeply regretted the loss of his patient but assured that she was treated correctly during the procedure.
He said: “The patient experienced an incident during the procedure, and immediately the prescribed protocols for the case were followed by the entire medical team present.
“We must emphasise here that medicine is not an exact science, and complications and incidents can occur in any field, regardless of the skill of the assisting professional, and that patients are duly informed about the risks, sign a consent form, and understand all the possibilities of the indicated treatment.”
What is cardiac arrest?
Cardiac arrest refers to when your heart suddenly stops pumping blood around your body.
People might not experience any symptoms at all prior to cardiac arrest, Johns Hopkins Medicine said, but some might have:
- Fatigue
- Dizziness
- Shortness of breath
- Nausea
- Chest pain
- Heart palpitations (fast or pounding heart beat)
- Loss of consciousness
If someone is in cardiac arrest, they collapse suddenly and are:
- unconscious
- unresponsive
- not breathing or not breathing normally – they might be making gasping noises