Surender Singh s/o Jagdish Singh And Another (administrators of the estate of Narindar Kaur d/o Sarwan Singh) v Li Man Kay and Others
Jurisdiction | Singapore |
Court | High Court (Singapore) |
Judge | Lai Siu Chiu J |
Judgment Date | 22 July 2009 |
Neutral Citation | [2009] SGHC 168 |
Citation | [2009] SGHC 168 |
Subject Matter | Evidence,Proof of evidence,Tort,Negligence,Onus of proof,Medical negligence |
Docket Number | Suit No 104 of 2008 |
Defendant Counsel | Rebecca Chew, Kelvin Poon and Loke Pei-Shan (Rajah & Tann LLP),Edwin Tong, Mak Wei Munn and Kristy Tan (Allen & Gledhill LLP) |
Plaintiff Counsel | Palaniappan Sundararaj and Shankar A.S. (Straits Law Practice LLC) |
Date | 22 July 2009 |
Published date | 27 August 2009 |
22 July 2009 |
Judgment reserved. |
Lai Siu Chiu J:
Introduction
The parties in this action
The nature of this action
Background facts
The renal anatomy
10 To remove the left kidney from the donor, all the different tissues attached to the three central systems in [8] must be dissected from the left kidney. Once the dissection of these tissues (which include the left renal artery and the left renal vein) are done, the tissues are secured using a variety of means including clips known as Hem-o-lok clips. Once clipped, the tissues are then transected. The left kidney will then be transplanted into the recipient. As the tissues are usually embedded with other tissues (such as the colon, the spleen and fatty tissues) that have to be first moved, cauterised or removed from the left kidney, the surgeon’s task of identifying and freeing the tissues is challenging. I turn next to the HALDN procedure.
The HALDN procedure
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