An elderly woman’s face caught fire while conscious during surgery in Australia, leaving her with ‘charred black’ skin.
Marilyn Espinola was working at Sunshine Hospital in St Albans, a suburb 15 miles northwest of Melbourne, on March 2, 2020, when the procedure when south.
An investigation conducted by WorkSafe Victoria, the state’s health and safety regulator, found the patient suffered burns on ‘various parts of their body’.The regulator’s report, obtained by news.com.au, found that oxygen had been leaking from the patient’s non-rebracing oxygen mask, called a ‘hudson’ mask.
‘A fire spread from the hudson mask to underneath the garments the patient was draped in,’ the report said, ‘causing the patient to sustain burns to various parts of her body.’
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