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A heart patient left 'awake' and 'paralysed' meaning she couldn't call for help during surgery after she was given the wrong medication has agreed to a £32,000 payout.
Patricia Otty, 77, was admitted to Derriford Hospital in Plymouth, Devon, in April 2017 and given half the usual dose of the general anaesthetic thiopentone for a woman of her age and size.
She was then mistakenly injected with the Death Row lethal injection ingredient potassium chloride, which stopped her heart.
And no painkiller fentanyl was administered at all, meaning Ms Otty was in agony during the procedure.
During the operation Ms Otty, from Paignton, would have been unable to move 'or otherwise indicate she was awake' because of use of the muscle relaxant rocuronium.
When Ms Otty's heart stopped she was resuscitated but when the surgeon cut through her breastbone it is thought she would have been 'wide awake' as the anaesthetic had worn off, according to legal documents.
Patricia Otty (pictured with her son Andrew), 77, was admitted to Derriford Hospital in Plymouth, Devon, in April 2017 and given half the usual dose of the general anaesthetic thiopentone for a woman of her age and size
Ms Otty
