In a statement issued after the inquest, Antonio’s mother Milena Galisi said her son had gone into hospital as a “healthy, happy boy for a planned procedure that was supposed to make his life better”.<\/p>\n
“Instead, I watched him suffer for days as he became more and more unwell, and my concerns were not listened to,” she said.<\/p>\n
“No family should ever have to see their child die in such a traumatic and avoidable way.”<\/p>\n
Beatrice Morgan, a human rights solicitor at Leigh Day, who represented Antonio’s family, said his death had been “preventable” and he “should have recovered” after the surgery.<\/p>\n
“Instead, he was kept on a drug that his clinicians knew carried serious risks when used for prolonged sedation,” she said.<\/p>\n
“Rather than consider alternative sedatives, Propofol was continued for six days. The expert evidence is unequivocal.<\/p>\n
“Antonio died from Propofol Infusion Syndrome, and his death was preventable.”<\/p>\n
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’s mother Milena Galisi said her son had gone into hospital…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[134,524,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-175650","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-medication","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}