A hospital patient died after an operation went tragically wrong, an inquest heard today.
Philip Silsbury, 74, of Kent Road Littlehampton, died at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton on February 10, three days after the operation.
At the time it was revealed Mr Silsbury, a retired British Rail ticket inspector, had been wrongly injected with a pain killing drug, bupivicaine, into a vein instead of the spine.
It happened during major surgery for an abdominal aortic aneurysm.
Brighton Coroner's Court heard Mr Silsbury's wife Phyllis received a telephone call at her home on Feburary 7, the day of the operation, asking her to get the hospital as soon as possible.
In a statement read out to the inquest, Mrs Silsbury said: "I was informed there had been a tragic accident."
The inquest is due to hear evidence from senior medical staff at the hospital including consultant anaesthetist Michael Twohig.
The hearing continues.
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