Police investigate the deaths of patients in cardiac surgery at the East Yorkshire Hospital | NHS
Police have launched an investigation into the death of cardiac surgery in a hospital in East Yorkshire.
The survey focuses on the implantation procedures of aortic transcatheter valve (TAVI) carried out on elderly and fragile patients at Castle Hill hospital, near Hull.
There was no arrest as part of the investigation, which, according to the Hamberside police, was “very first stadiums”.
A BBC survey revealed that concerns had been raised concerning the death of 11 patients after the procedure to replace a damaged valve in the heart.
It is surgery used in people with heart disease that is not good enough for major heart surgery, because the heart does not need to be stopped, unlike the bridging surgery.
However, it still has a serious risk because it implies that surgeons inserting an instrument with a ball in a leg or a chest artery, which is moved to the position near the opening of the aortic valve. The space for new fabrics is then created by inflating the ball, which supports the heart valve.
The Humber Health Care Partnership, which directs Castle Hill via Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH), told BBC that three separate journals, conducted after concerns, had found that deaths after this type of surgery in the hospital were in accordance with the national average.
He said that families who had lost dear beings were invited to ask questions and that confidence was “happy to answer them directly”.
The spokesman said: “Three distinct external journals of our TAVI service have been undertaken and have shown that the mortality rates associated with TAVI are similar to national mortality rates over a four-year period.
“The Royal College of Physicians was invited to examine the service in 2021, at the request of the chief doctor of the trust. The Royal College report concluded that the TAVI service is essential for the Humber and North Yorkshire region and must be extended.
“However, he said that the design of the service should be revised and invested. The report offered a certain number of improvement actions and we have delivered to all those who have been shared with us. ”
A homberside police spokesman said: “An investigation is in the first stadiums concerning death after surgery at Castle Hill hospital. Investigations are underway and at that time we can confirm that no arrest has been made.”
