Knee surgery: My husband died from a routine knee operation - because the surgeon used him as a guinea pig | Mail Online

When her husband wentinto hospital for a knee operation, Penny Belcuore hoped it might end thechronic pain that prevented him carrying their young daughters on hisshoulders.

But Luigi Belcuoredied on the operating table after surgeon Professor James Richardson failed tofollow guidance for using equipment.

As a result, theorthopaedic specialist injected Mr Belcuore, 43, with an air bubble thatstopped his heart, an inquest has heard. 

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