Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 26, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Local Winnipeg free september As Odim Doest feel events in surgery led to baby death child died after attempt to Patch Hole in heart by Alexandra Paul medical reporter the surgeon at the Centre of a controversial childrens heart surgery program yesterday dismissed As unfortunate his handling of one operation in which a child died after he tried to Patch a Hole in her Jonah Odim referred to the death of seven month old baby Jessica Uli Maumie As an unfortunate sequence of Uli Maumie died after she bled through an intravenous line that was left the autopsy found a Needle left inside operating room nurses had filed a report on a missing Needle lost during her Odim who led the paediatric cardiac surgery program in 1994 until health sciences Centre closed it due to mortality rates said he did not believe the events in surgery caused ulimae Mies anaesthetists lawyer Hymie Weinstein asked Odim under Cross disaster would not be too Strong a word Odim replied it its not uncommon for intravenous lines from bypass machines for artificial life support to be left undamped for Short periods of the sur Geon Ive seen it before in every Centre Ive worked Odim he added hed never seen a patient die from Odim also said while he still does not know where the missing Needle went from the he deliberately left another Needle in the baby when attempts to revive her failed and she in the Case of another child who four year old Vinay doctors and nurses Testi fied that adrenaline was dribbled on the heart and it blanched the vital Odim denied the event and downplayed another event in the same other members of the surgical team told associate chief provincial court judge Murray sin Clair Odim was supposed to have hit goals heart hard with the Heel of his hand when he was giving an Saline injection to test for one other dims surgical assistant Hancock said Odim had to use Force As part of the technique and no harm was done to the heart As a result of but on the stand Odim suggested i n o u he didst use the Type of syringe that called for heavy in contradicting the Odim said he recalled using a bul Type syringe that is not the plunger Type that others report Weinstein asked Odim if the syringe worked like a Turkey i dont know what a Turkey Baster i squeezed Odim Goyal died after a massive Haemorrhage in the operating room team could not transfuse blood fast partly because the surgeon had removed the biggest tube through which transfusions Are according to ear Lier in that doctors and nurses said they didst hear Odim say he was taking the tube out until it was already Odim said he Learned from the after that i essentially would repeat it instructions or comments several times until somebody would acknowledge specifically an Odim anaesthetists and other members of the Surgi Cal team have testified repeatedly to concerns they had for the lives of babies in surgery because of the surgeons technique with Canna insertion or removal of intravenous lines that Hook a patient up to bypass Odim admitted some difficulty with Cannula but Only at the beginning of the year when he first arrived in Winnipeg in february from time to time my technique required we did have some problems at the but it didst cause any important issues with Odim in another members of the surgical team reported Odim had sown closed a valve in a baby by the child i was so surprised that the team was alarmed that that they never seen it Odim the known As a eustachian is Only functional before birth As a Way of getting blood to the fetus it has no function after Odim now ending his fourth week on the is expected to keep testifying until new judge takes Bench in fatal eating trial staff the trial of two men accused of beat ing an elderly Inwood Man to death was expected to resume today with a new earlier in the jury members had been excused indefinitely when Justice Aubrey Hirschfield took ill and was unable to pro the jury met with Madam jus Tice Ruth Krindle who notified them she would be taking Over the i am comfortable i can pick up from Here and we can conclude this trial she it would be a terrible shame to Start All Over Donald Rene Souire and Michael Vince face charges of second degree murder and manslaughter respectively in the beating death of 73yearold Walter Jacob f to court has heard from witnesses who said the two men talked about robbing arid beating Futch the night he was Ottawa cuts weaken fight against youth crime Toews Public at risk the fight against youth crime is being under mined by Federal government says Manitoba Justice Ottawa is proposing to chop funding for youth corrections in the province by per cent or last the province was hit with a four per cent reduce funding has been Frozen since according to jus Tice minister Vic Manitoba Young offender caseloads Are increasing and Public safety concerns around youth crime and violence demand Strong said who is demanding that funding be the 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