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Luke Costin

Coroner seeks surgery drug reaction probe

Dr Jakob Koestenbauer told the coroner there wasn't sufficient uncertainty to delay treatment. (Bianca De Marchi/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

The link between a common hospital drug and anaphylactic shock needs to be better known after a young man's appendix surgery led to his death, a coroner says.

Sydney law clerk Lucas Peyret was a healthy, fit man preparing to move house when struck down by appendicitis in May 2019.

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