Cornwall girl who died after tonsil surgery should have been readmitted, coroner says

A five-year-old girl with a rare syndrome that caused her to vomit repeatedly should have been immediately readmitted to hospital following a tonsillitis operation when she suffered a bout of sickness, a coroner has said.

The family of Amber Milnes, who had cyclical vomiting syndrome (CVS) , have expressed concern that she was not kept in hospital overnight after the procedure because of her condition and say she ought to have been readmitted next morning when she began vomiting.

Amber suffered an infection and a haemorrhage and died four days after the 38-minute tonsillectomy at the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro.

At the end of a two-day inquest, senior coroner Andrew Cox said: “Potential complications from the triggering of a CVS episode by the operation were readily foreseeable