Inquest hears Wodonga man was surgeon's third patient to die from double knee replacement
ABCA Wodonga man who suffered a racing heart rate after a double knee replacement was the third patient to die from the procedure under the same surgeon, a NSW inquest has heard. Kenneth Toll, 62, died from a pulmonary thromboembolism in an Albury Wodonga Private Hospital ward on July 20, 2019, three days after orthopaedic surgeon Elie Khoury peformed bilateral knee replacement surgery on him. Mr Toll's cardiologist, Naylin Bissessor, had deemed him in "really good" cardiac health five months before the surgery, but his cardiology notes were not on the hospital's file. Cardiologist Jan Albert Du Plooy said he was working at Albury Wodonga Private Hospital on July 19 when an HDU nurse showed him Mr Toll's electrocardiogram as a training exercise, and he was not worried. The family acknowledged there had been several changes made at Albury Wodonga Private Hospital since Mr Toll's passing.
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