Baby who died after heart surgery at John Radcliffe is named

By Rebecca Smith, Medical Editor Published: 8:00AM GMT 06 March 2010

Nathalie died at the John Radcliffe Hospital, in Oxford, on Dec 22nd last year, following heart surgery carried out by surgeon Caner Salih.

Three alternative young kids have given died following operations by the same surgeon and all children"s heart surgery has been halted whilst an review is conducted.

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Nathalie was innate at the sanatorium in Nov and had a complaint with one of the valves in her heart that compulsory ethereal surgery to correct.

She was only twenty-four days old when she died.

Last night, the baby"s relatives Aida Alves Lo, 29, and her father Zelio Li, 30, declined to comment.

The integrate have been tied together 3 years and live in a still residential travel in the city, and are creatively from East Timor.

Mr Li functions as an public workman whilst his mother is a housewife. The integrate have one alternative son elderly 4 or five years.

Nicholas Gardiner, the Oxfordshire coroner, non-stop and shelved an inquisition in to Nathalie"s genocide on Jan 13.

External experts are due to be allocated to lead the review at the sanatorium to settle if there are any usual factors in the deaths.

A orator for the certitude pronounced the review would see at all aspects of caring and said: "It is not about one surgeon."

There are dual surgeons at the Oxford Radcliffe Trust who lift out paediatric cardiac surgery, Mr Salih and Prof Stephen Westaby, who additionally operates on adults.

Mr Salih has refused to criticism whilst the review is ongoing and has not long ago been allocated as a expert surgeon at Guy"s and St Thomas Foundation Trust in London, nonetheless has not proposed work there yet.

It is thought Mr Salih lifted the warning after 4 young kids died in the last 3 to 4 months and nonetheless mankind rates at the certitude are inside of the approaching range, it was motionless to stop all children"s heart surgery to investigate.

A orator for the certitude said: "Sadly, any sanatorium will have deaths in a use that provides diagnosis for patients who are really unwell.

"However, it is right that we take a postponement whilst we see in to the particular cases, to see if there is anything to sense from them.

"We can endorse that all 4 of the young kids who died inside of the time support endangered were patients of Mr Salih, but we are not only seeking at the surgical procedures, we are seeking at all aspects of studious caring in propinquity to these children.

"The family groups of young kids available cardiac surgery have been contacted and we are right away fixation those patients who need to be seen urgently with alternative hospitals. We are reviewing each of these patients to safeguard that they are not put at risk by any check in their treatment. "

The cardiac section at the certitude has been stubborn by concerns over mankind rates and has a repute for receiving high risk cases.

Investigations have formerly found no means for regard with paediatric mankind rates but found that adult cardiac deaths were higher than in a little alternative units but were still inside of the approaching range.

Relationships in between expert surgeons has been strained, regulators found, and care has been called in to question.