An reported effort by a 30-year-old nurse to perform liposuction on herself ended in death.
The nurse was apparently discovered unconscious in a doctor’s clinic after doing lipo on her stomach, according to Jam Press via The New York Post. Owner of Clinica Amper in Mexico, Dr. Rolando Samper Mendoza, claimed that she administered anesthetic to herself in order to carry out the treatment for which she lacked experience. Soon after being discovered by a coworker, who called paramedics and made an effort to rescue her, she passed away from cardiorespiratory arrest.
Dr. Samper said the woman, who was only identified as Carina, tried to perform the procedure “without [his] authorization or permission.” He added, “One of my nurses named Carina…decided on her own to perform abdominal liposuction with [a] local anesthetic. The result of this incomprehensible action was that she died as a result of the massive absorption of anesthetic that she administered herself.”
According to data from the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, liposuction-related deaths are rare. Nonetheless, according to a research published in the National Library of Medicine, fatalities still happen every 1 in 5,000 surgical procedures.