A woman who was given 12 to 18 months to live and was 'desperate' for neurosurgeon Charlie Teo to elongate her life ended up in a vegetative state after the operation, a disciplinary hearing is told.
abc.net.au/news/charlie-teo-surgery-had-no-benefit-disciplinary-hearing/101975484One of Charlie Teo's brain surgeries that left a middle-aged woman in a vegetative state had "no benefit" and the rationale behind it was "nonsense", a disciplinary hearing has been told.
The woman, who cannot be identified, had been given 12 to 18 months to live and was "desperate" for Dr Teo to elongate her life. Dr Morokoff was asked whether the risk of severe consequences or death far outweighed any potential benefit of the surgery."Do you see any benefits from a radical resection of this tumour?," Kate Richardson SC said.The woman died in March 2019 after living in a mostly vegetative state for about six months post surgery.
But Professor Stokes admitted some surgeons were quicker, and it was possible to do the surgery in less than four hours.The committee has asked to see an MRI taken from the woman's brain immediately after surgery to determine exactly what Dr Teo did, but the scan is missing.Dr Teo is also being scrutinised over his decision to operate on a woman in her 60s, who died in late March 2019, about a month after surgery for a brain tumour.
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