With any surgery there are risks.  Death is always a possibility.   I recall hearing in the news a few years ago of someone having surgery on their knee and complications set in that led to them passing away.  Not to scare you, but there are dangers everywhere.    Don't drive to the store- death is a possiblity.

       Don't live your life as death is a possibility.   I believe I did that for the pass 5 decades.  Not live life for fear  of something.

Uhhhhhhhhhh

CAN WE CHANGE THE SUBJECT?


Lizzy

Quote from: Cindy James on May 09, 2012, 03:40:39 AM
That said SRS is considered (MtF) a low risk procedure given that it occurs in a good hospital by qualified staff and appropriate after care. I think FtM including top and bottom surgery is a higher risk because of the potential blood loss, but hysterectomies are performed very routinely.

You have it flipped around, Laparoscopic Hysterectomy is low risk and can be performed in an out patient surgical suite, as is mastectomy, whether elective or for cancer. MtF SRS is a moderate risk surgery. It certainly carries less risk than surgeries that require opening of the thoracic or abdominal cavities, but it is an inpatient surgical procedure.

Quote from: Cindy James on May 09, 2012, 04:52:11 AM
To be pedantic (sorry) those deaths are not due to SRS they are due to any surgical event or even anaesthetic event. Once your number is up, it's up. I think the OP was interested in SRS related deaths. As we know any surgical event is major, even if I classified them as low or medium risk, they are a higher than no event at all.

Most surgical deaths are post-operative, not intraoperative, except maybe in trauma, but don't quote me on that. Anesthesia carries a risk, surgery carries a risk (infection, embolism, etc), and inpatient recovery carries a risk (infection, embolism, etc).

Quote from: Cindy James on May 09, 2012, 04:52:11 AM
I have had people go into shock after putting a needle into an arm vein to take 10 mls of blood.

A vaso-vagal reaction is VERY different from a Pulmonary Embolism or Hospital Acquired Pneumonia.

Quote from: lilacwoman on May 09, 2012, 04:21:49 AM
I can't remember ever reading of any death during srs surgery.
it is possible it happens just as often as other surgery deaths but the medical ethics, confidentiality and relative's wishes may keep it out of the press?

then I look on Wiki and find this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ronald_Brown

as he wasn't doing the surgery in a proper theatre setting it doesn't prove anything about srs being dangerous.

what is interesting about that article is that Johns Hopkins only passed 24 out of 2000 for surgery?   I find that an incredible low number and must be due to JH staffs having an agenda against TS as just turning up at the place and undergoing assessmnet must prove the person has a good degree of TSism?

There was a documentary on Brown called the 'World's Worst Sex Change Surgeon'
It can be seen here: http://blip.tv/resustv/the-world-s-worst-sex-change-surgeon-5269448

Warning: Contains Some Graphic Scenes ^

Disclaimer: This in no way undermines the wonderful work that most surgeons are performing. This was a rare case of gross malpractice. Anyway, that 'doctor' is dead.


I also have researched the 'what can go wrong' stuff, and as it has already been said by others, there is risk in any surgery.
I look forward to having my surgery one day and am not afraid at all.
I am more afraid of living without it.
Peace and respect to all.

I'm sure I read of an Irish girl who was overweight dying on the operating table around 1980

1980?  Your talking about 33 years ago, almost not relevant.

Anytime you have surgery you sign a release stating that you could die during the procedure.  I had to sign one for shoulder surgery and one other surgery. 

There is no evidence that SRS is any more dangerous than any other surgery.

Dr Brown seems to be a real super doctor. He invented the sensitive clitoris construction technique. Amazing.

This was an older topic, and there is no point in renewing old problems. I have locked this thread, feel free to start a fresh topic on the subject of surgery risks. Sorry for any inconvenience. Hugs, Devlyn