A COURT of Three Judges has cleared an Austrian heart and lung surgeon of professional misconduct, overturning his nine-month suspension for injecting a two-year-old patient with the undiluted form of a drug used to temporarily stop the heart during an operation.
In 2007, Dr Uwe Klima, who practised at the National University Hospital (NUH), operated on the boy to remedy a rare heart condition. During the operation, he assumed that the syringe handed to him by a nurse contained diluted cardioplegia.
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