A former nurse is suing the hospital she labored at after witnessing a affected person's face catching hearth throughout an operation, in response to Australian media.

Marilyn Espinola was working at Sunshine Hospital in St Albans, northwest of Melbourne, when a process to take away a bit of a affected person's artery went horribly unsuitable.

The hearth broke out throughout the bilateral temporal arterial biopsy in March 2020 after a leak from the affected person's oxygen masks gathered below their hospital robe, in response to news.com.au.

The affected person was left with burns to "various parts of their body" in response to a report, revealed by harm compensation advisory service WorkSafe and obtained by Australian media.

As a results of witnessing the incident, Ms Espinola mentioned she has been identified with post-traumatic stress dysfunction and experiences panic assaults three to 4 occasions per week, which means she can not return to work.

"I just heard 'fire, fire'... I couldn't see any but then he tapped the patient's face and I saw fire," Ms Espinola mentioned, when recalling the accident to the news outlet.

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She described the distressing scene of the affected person "screaming" in ache and medical workers frantically making an attempt to extinguish the flames.

She mentioned she thought everybody was going to "explode and die".

During the panic, Ms Espinola fell over and injured her ankle, which she later mentioned was not taken significantly by her employer.

Lawyers engaged on her behalf are in search of compensation for her lack of earnings and "pain and suffering".

"Staff at Sunshine Hospital ought to have known this type of medical procedure carries a higher than usual risk of surgical fire," Erin Jobling, solicitor at Shine Lawyers mentioned.

Western Health - which runs Sunshine Hospital - mentioned it was unable to remark as it's a "confidential matter and is the subject of legal proceedings".