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Epidural was 'wrongly injected' Man deported after wife's inquest
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A woman died shortly after childbirth after an epidural anaesthetic was wrongly injected into her arm instead of the spine, an inquest has heard. A Filipino man is being deported from Britain because his wife, who died after childbirth, is no longer working here, an inquest jury heard.
Mayra Cabrera, 30, died following the birth of son Zac on 11 May 2004 at Swindon's Great Western Hospital, where she had worked as a theatre nurse. Arnel Cabrera's wife Mayra, 30, died after an epidural anaesthetic was wrongly injected into her arm in 2004.
Swindon & Marlborough NHS Trust has admitted liability for administering the anaesthetic intravenously. She died at Swindon's Great Western Hospital, where she had worked as a theatre nurse.
More than 25 witnesses are expected to give evidence to the inquest. Swindon & Marlborough NHS Trust has admitted liability for her being given the anaesthetic intravenously.
It is expected to last up to three weeks and is being heard by Wiltshire Coroner David Masters at Trowbridge Town Hall. David Masters, the Wiltshire coroner, told the jury in Trowbridge that there had been two other deaths at hospitals in the UK in the last decade caused by the epidual drug Bupivacaine being administered intravenously.
Mrs Cabrera, who is from the Philippines, had a heart attack shortly after giving birth. Mr Cabrera was told immediately afterwards by doctors that his wife had died from an amniotic fluid embolism, the inquest heard.
A post-mortem examination found it was caused by the anaesthetic being administered in the wrong place. But he learned later that she had died because Bupivacaine had been administered wrongly.
Mrs Cabrera came to the UK from the Philippines in 2002, settling in Swindon with Mr Cabrera, 38, who was permitted to stay in Britain on the basis that she was working.
Following his wife's death, Mr Cabrera was informed that, because she was no longer working, he had to leave the country as soon as her inquest had concluded.