Post-operative fatal blood aspiration after routine lung surgery

When patients die shortly after an operation, the question of possible medical malpractice frequently arises. The clarification of medical malpractice claims is, therefore, a regularly encountered task in medicolegal practice. To be able to fulfill this task, medical examiners need to have a good understanding of the common complications that can occur after surgical procedures [13–15]. Although, the aspects that need to be clarified are often only vaguely defined, they may at times be so specific that they require specialist knowledge beyond the scope of the medical examiner’s training in general medicine.

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