Posted on 03/25/2008 8:26:26 AM PDT by philsfan24
She was captain of her high school cheerleading squad, a nearly straight-A student and a soon-to-be pre-med student at the University of Florida.
But now, 18-year-old Stephanie Kuleba is dead, and her friends and family are pointing to breast augmentation surgery as the cause, The Palm Beach Post reported.
"She was a role model for a lot of people," her friend Vicky Goldring, 16, told the paper. "She was incredibly smart. She wanted to help people. She was just a happy 18-year-old girl."
Kuleba died Saturday of what friends believe were complications from the plastic surgery she had the previous night, though no official cause of death has yet been released, the Post reported.
A friend speaking on behalf of her grieving family told the newspaper that Kuleba had an extreme reaction to the anesthesia.
"The surgery itself was very personal," Perlman told the paper. "She passed away from complications during surgery.
Paramedics were summoned to the teen's aid at the Boca Raton outpatient surgery unit where she'd had the procedure, and they rushed her to Delray Medical Center. She died there on Saturday.
The West Boca High School senior, whom friends described as "perfect" and full of promise and possibilities, was mourned by classmates at a candlelight vigil at the school Sunday night. More than 400 people attended.
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Whew!
Good thing, otherwise she might have had some problems.
There are a bunch of plastic surgery clinics that are only set up for that procedure. Anything happens and they don’t have the proper equipment to deal with it.
The same thing applies to some “birthing centers”. Usually staffed by certified midwives and nurses, but should a real emergency arise, the patient has to go to the hospital.
Paramedics were summoned to the teen’s aid at the Boca Raton outpatient surgery unit .....
This procedure should have only been conducted at a fully and properly equipped facility where emergencies can be treated immediately. What a tragedy. Were these surgeons American schooled, or schooled in India.
Never, never seek medical care at a cut rate joint.
Except not pay for it as I doubt that she had the coin to do it herself.
All of ya, bite me. I will inject my crude and unfunny comments where I see fit.
Depends on who paid for the operation.
There is, but it involves a muscle biopsy and is prone to false negatives.
“I was struck by that sentence also. So the anesthesiologist and surgeon got in over their heads, and they called 911?????”
So were the doctors supposed to load her up in their car and take her to the hospital? Of course not. They were calling for an ambulance.
It could have been surgery to reduce their size, a friend of mine’s 14 year old daughter wants hers reduced because they are causing her back pain, etc.
My fire station was close to an area that had a lot of medical specialists. The doctors who do specialties frequently called for help. Plastic surgeons, podiatrists, dermatologists, etc., don’t deal with medical emergencies very often. I had a dermatologist get quite upset one time. He felt guilty because as a doctor, he believed he should have known what to do, but it had been years since he’d dealt with someone having a cardiac arrest.
If I understand correctly, this is why anaesthesiologists (please insert correct spelling)have the highest malpractice insurance rates.
Poor taste man, this was someone’s daughter that died from complication of surgery. Same thing could have happened if she had had knee surgery
“All of ya, bite me. I will inject my crude and unfunny comments where I see fit.”
And we’ll dump on you when you act like a jack-—.
Well, the second sentence says breast augmentation surgery.
I saw pictures of her from the breast up and she didn’t look all that big on top. She wasn’t flat but she didn’t look big enough to warrant a reduction IMO.
I think she was going the other direction.
Breast augmentation? What a senseless tragedy.
There are millions of outpatient procedures done every year under anesthesia - dental surgery, colonoscopy, abortion.
If this young woman suffered a malignant hyperthermia reaction, it kills people in hospitals too.
Your gonna get slammed by the overly sensative crowd, but that is a funny comment.
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