Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 20, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Saturday ree september As specialist mediated or tension Odim medical reporter t Ess than a month before i sciences Centre sus its Ped attic heart surgery Hospital administrators brought in a highly qualified heart surgeon to mediate tension Dur ing open heart surgeries on an inquest was told at the end of his third week of Tes Timony at an inquest into the deaths of 12 children after open heart surgery at Hsc in Ottah Odim said shortly before putting the program on the Hospital took Steps to help him manage the operating room Dur ing difficult a memo from Bob then head of to Brian then head of Chil Drens called for cardiac surgeon Andrew Hamilton to stand in with Odim told the inquest yesterday that Hamiltons Job was not to help him with the but keep order in the operating room As a kind of mediator to ease tension Between the doctor and his Hamilton could watch the monitors and make sure everybody was fulfilling their Odim that 1 could concentrate on my earlier evidence at the inquest indicated Hamilton was called in on the Tough cases to help Odim out because of mortality two weeks the program was suspended following a 12th that of eight Darold Crin on Odim testified that after the Pekau baby who had taken Over the administration of childrens hos Pital just weeks called the sur Geon into his Postl told me he was closing the t dont think t had any Choice in the Odim i was Odim said yesterday that technical problems during surgery led to the Pekau he said it May have been averted with better this was the Case that prompted the program to be shut Down he earlier in the Odim testified he shared responsibility for manage ment of the Pekau but later he said that anaesthetists were responsible for that part of the the Pekau surgery to make a pathway for blood to flow to the lungs to have taken two it took More than 11 technical problems with blood flow to the lungs caused blood clots to plug each new called a that Odim he took the unusual step of putting the baby on hear lung bypass to circulate the blood artificially while he made a third and final the baby died a few hours later in intensive Odim said that if anaesthetist Ann Mcneil had used Little of no Gen to ventilate the baby during surgery and had allowed natural lev Els of Carbon to blood flows May have been More Odim said he didst Check the oxygen Levels of ask about them specifically at the that aspect of 11ely on my anaesthetist colleagues for and up to this Point there had never been a so i didst he the baby blood Supply to the lungs swung Between two extremes throughout the with either too Little or too much blood flowing to the he to created a vicious Cycle that could not be controlled and contributed to the baby he Filmon favours referendum on constitutional Reform staff to an1toba will Likely hold a province i referendum on Unity before changes to the Premier Gary Filmon the constitutional Veteran said he would rather have a National vote on the Legal language of any adding he believes Manitoban should have a voice if a formal agreement is i want to wait until 1 hear what Manitoban have to say during an initial consultation he but if we got to the Point of Legal wording on a constitutional we would Likely have a Canadas other three Western provinces have already said they too would put a constitutional agreement to the on Saskatchewan Premier Roy Romanow said that province would Likely join Alberta and British Columbia in holding a Provin Cial referendum on Unity before approving any changes to the British Columbia and Alberta Are bound by Law to hold referendums if the initiative results in a proposal for constitutional Ontario has also suggested a vote is Filmon said he would want Manitoban to vote on the same question that other provinces Manitoba will work with any province holding a vote on the wording of any question so people vote on the same Filmon Canadas premiers met in Calgary last 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