Tonsillectomy causes fatal brain injury for teenager
Kentucky residents may have heard that according to a teenage tonsillectomy patient’s mother, her daughter began bleeding from the nose and mouth shortly after awakening from the surgery before going into cardiac arrest. Attending physicians eventually pronounced brain death and announced plans to remove life support not long after. That decision was apparently overruled by parental objection with requests for more time. According to the American Academy of Otolaryngology data,