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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
Peter Brewer

Hospital's dosage mix-up contributed to a Canberra woman's death

A woman who died in Canberra Hospital in 2021 had received massive doses of painkillers which an anaesthetist, in giving coronial evidence, believed was not appropriate for a woman her weight.

Coroner Ken Archer was told Sharyn Kaine weighed just 39kg when she was taken by ambulance to Calvary Hospital with symptoms of stomach pain and a distended and painful abdomen.

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