Nathalie Lo weighed what her mother assumed was a healthy 7lbs 5oz A baby whose death along with three others caused the suspension of heart surgery at a hospital died from natural causes, an inquest has ruled.
Nathalie Lo was 23 days old when she died after having surgery at Oxford’s John Radcliffe Hospital last December.
Children’s heart operations were suspended at the unit in March after three other babies subsequently died.
The inquest in Oxford heard that Nathalie died despite her treatment and not because of it.
All four babies had been treated by the same surgeon, Caner Salih, the inquest was told.
In July, a report by the South Central Strategic Health Authority said Mr Salih, who has since left the hospital, was not to blame for the deaths.
A government review published earlier this month recommended that no more paediatric cardiac surgery should be carried out at the hospital, concluding it was the least likely out of 11 centres in England to meet new quality standards.
Nathalie was born on 29 November and weighed 7lbs 5oz.
Later that day, doctors discovered she had a condition which meant her heart was not able to pump enough oxygenated blood to her lungs – known as pulmonary atresia with Ebstein’s anomaly.
Doctors advised her parents that she would need surgery.
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