Doctors carried out emergency c-section on crash victim, 48, who wasn’t pregnant metro.co.uk

Doctors have been told they did nothing wrong when they performed an emergency cesarean section on a woman who died in a crash. Adele Barbour, 48, was killed when she tried to turn right off a road and hit an oncoming car in Nettleham, Lincolnshire. Paramedics misdiagnosed her as being eight months pregnant because her scoliosis and spina bifida made her belly appear swollen. With time against them, doctors operated on her but a coroner heard there was no evidence to suggest this contributed to her death. However, Adele’s family were unhappy that they were not initially told that the procedure had been carried out. Sister Sarah-Jane Spence said: ‘On the day Adele was admitted, the doctor omitted to mention the C-section when she told us Adele was being moved to theatre, and neither did she tell us about it when she informed us of her death.