{"id":334864,"date":"2025-12-09T16:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T16:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/334864\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T16:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T16:11:07","slug":"coroner-calls-for-uk-wide-rules-on-propofol-use-after-boys-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/334864\/","title":{"rendered":"Coroner calls for UK-wide rules on Propofol use after boy&#8217;s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a statement issued after the inquest, Antonio&#8217;s mother Milena Galisi said her son had gone into hospital as a &#8220;healthy, happy boy for a planned procedure that was supposed to make his life better&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Instead, I watched him suffer for days as he became more and more unwell, and my concerns were not listened to,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;No family should ever have to see their child die in such a traumatic and avoidable way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Beatrice Morgan, a human rights solicitor at Leigh Day, who represented Antonio&#8217;s family, said his death had been &#8220;preventable&#8221; and he &#8220;should have recovered&#8221; after the surgery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Instead, he was kept on a drug that his clinicians knew carried serious risks when used for prolonged sedation,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Rather than consider alternative sedatives, Propofol was continued for six days. The expert evidence is unequivocal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Antonio died from Propofol Infusion Syndrome, and his death was preventable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The BBC has contacted Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and NICE for a comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a statement issued after the inquest, Antonio&#8217;s mother Milena Galisi said her son had gone into hospital&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[49,48,84,377],"class_list":{"0":"post-334864","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-medication"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}