Louise Harvey, 36, paid £7,000 to have a tummy tuck and breast enhancement
A beauty therapist who died of a blood clot after cosmetic surgery was not given medication which may have prevented her death, it emerged today.
Louise Harvey, 36, paid £7,000 to have a tummy tuck and breast enhancement done at the same time in a three-hour operation at a private London hospital.
The mother-of-three, who had a history of blood clots in her family, died 17 days later from the complication after collapsing at her home in Norwich.
A pre-inquest hearing today at Norfolk Coroner's Court was told she had not been given anti-coagulant blood thinning drugs to prevent clots to take home after surgery on June 17 last year.
Miss Harvey had been prescribed one dose of an anticoagulant drug during her two-day stay in the hospital run by top UK cosmetic surgery firm Transform.
But there was a delay in her receiving it and a prescription for a second dose was also not administered, the court heard.
Norfolk Area coroner Yvonne Blake questioned why she had not been given the drugs to take home when her sister and grandmother had each suffered deep vein thrombosis due to blood clots in the past.
Miss Harvey, who had a history of blood clots in her family, died from the complication
Miss Harvey, who died on July 5, had revealed her family history of DVT during an assessment she underwent before her surgery.
Ms Blake said she wanted to know the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidelines for prescribing anticoagulant drugs after cosmetic surgery.
She also asked for Transform to describe its protocol on giving the drugs. Ms Blake suggested it was 'quite risky' for Miss Harvey not to have been prescribed them.
Miss Harvey had revealed her family history of DVT during an assessment she underwent
She added: 'My concern is that these protocols may be adequate for an average patient who tends to be youngish.
'But because of her family history with DVT, doesn't that make her out of the range of the average patient? She was out for three hours having multiple procedures.'
Ms Blake suggested that it may have been more appropriate for Miss Harvey to have the drugs due to her tummy tuck which would have reduced her mobility while she recovered, making a blood clot
