Karolinska University Hospital's management comment Kjell Asplund investigation: "An exceptional and unacceptable series of events"
On August 31 2016, Kjell Asplund presented the external investigation concerning the circumstances around which three patients underwent windpipe surgery led by Paolo Macchiarini between 2011-2013. The investigation revealed serious irregularities in the management of the three patients and serious flaws in hospital procedures, systems and culture.- We take the results of the investigation very seriously, said Head of Karolinska University Hospital, Melvin Samsom. What has happened is totally unacceptable; and in many ways exceptional. The study shows a sequence of events enabling Paolo