Usher's Wife Had Pre-Plastic Surgery Cardiac Arrest

SAO PAULO — The wife of R&B singer Usher continues to recover in a Sao Paulo hospital after suffering a cardiac arrest shortly before undergoing plastic surgery, the spokeswoman of the doctor who was to perform the procedure said Thursday.

Ellen Dastry, spokeswoman for plastic surgeon Silvio Sterman, says Tameka Raymond checked into the Sao Rafael Hospital last Friday for a "simple liposuction." Dastry said that Raymond suffered a cardiac arrest while being anesthetized for the procedure "but was revived in less than a minute by heart massage." She was then placed in an induced coma before being taken to the intensive-care unit, a procedure Dastry said was "absolutely normal" and performed in order to "avoid unnecessary complications."

That same day Raymond was transferred to Sao Paulo's posh and better-equipped Sirio-Libanes Hospital where she is recovering, Dastry said without providing further details.

At Sirio-Libanes, a spokeswoman would only say that Raymond remains hospitalized. She explained that Raymond's family requested that no information regarding her condition be divulged by the hospital. She did not give her name, per hospital rules.

Usher was supposed to perform at music mogul Clive Davis' pre-Grammy party last Saturday, but backed out to come to Brazil to be with his wife.

The 30-year-old R&B star and his wife were married in August 2007. They have two young sons, 2-year-old Usher Raymond V and 2-month-old Naveid Ely Raymond.

Comments

[beauxoxo]

You think she has brain damage

[DelvinMcGee]

Evidently Usher and Kanye West are not very good friends, since hopefully Usher would have learned of the danger of plastic surgery from Kanye, who recently lost his mother.

[cmarte]

Why would a parent put their own life at risk with an elective surgery? I don't get it.

[AbsolutDemocrat]

Parents aren't immune to vanity.

[CR46]

I hope she has a full reocery. But it is good that this is being brought to the media in a way. People should be very aware that there is no such thing as minor surgery, anytime any one is "put under" this can happen.

[fitfavored]

I certainly wish her a full recovery. But, if I had her money I would hire a personal trainer, a nutritionist, and a diet cop. I would be so fit and fine Usher would never leave home.

[westphilly726]

Hate to be cruel but with a face like that she gets lipo.

[rj0q1b]

Oh my this is a shame the lady just had a baby 2 months ago I thought it took at east 12 weeks for the body to heal. She could be dead trying to look young. OMG what is this lady thinking. She went to Brazil for the secretness of the surgery so how ironic she almost died and now it is national news

[TEETAAT]

Just a heart attack, no biggie. Would you like coma with that? Ugh...
Tameka, you are young, healthy and wealthy. Can't you just call it good. You are blessed in so many ways. Don't let these greedy doctors(?) fool with your self esteem.

[harriettubman]

I've never, ever heard of putting someone in a coma after a cardiac arrest. Never.

[Nanaama]

Actually it is the routine, any other way would rather be the exception.

[Aramarcal]

Very sad that two months after giving birth and she is having plastic surgery/Lipo. She should have let her body rest more at the very least....

[SarahSarah]

I hope she is through with this plastic surgery nonsense since it nearly killed her.

[13lotus]

ah, the price we pay for the unrealistic ideal of beauty. 2 months after having a baby? i won't chastize this woman, i pity her. all the money in the world and still it is just not enough...

[LovelyGirl]

She's only ten or so years older than him. I hope she's not old enough to be his mother. Yikes!

[rubinoff]

God speed and i hope she has learn a lesson, leave well enough, alone.
(((embarassed)))....i didn't know (until i read this) that he is married.

[MissElaineous]

With their money, they could have afforded surgery in the United States with a board certified surgeon.

[Nanaama]

The cardiac arrest was not the surgeon´s fault. It happened during the induction of the anaesthesia. This could have happened anywhere, including the US.

[eMJayy]

Well, technically speaking, it's the anesthetist that's responsible for induction so the surgeon can't be at fault. There isn't enough information to draw firm conclusions as to whether there is someone to blame. One potential cause may have been the muscle relaxant that was used to facilitate intubation - that's when the breathing tube is inserted. In order to get the tube in, it's necessary to use a muscle relaxant. Normally, the drug used will only paralyze muscle (not including heart muscle) for a few minutes at most. But some people have a blood enzyme deficiency that prevents them from metabolizing the drug as fast as they should and the drug ends up affecting the heart. These patients will remain paralyzed for much longer than the few minutes that the drug takes to wear off. So they would put her in an induced coma because she wouldn't be able to breathe on her own or move if she did wake up. The other potential cause is a botched intubation , where the tube ends up in the esophagus rather than the windpipe. This could cause the patient to suffocate and arrest. This would be the fault of the anesthetist.

[PDXTransplant]

I'll keep me fat arse - thank you very much.

[luluLA]

So she had a heart attack shortly before undergoing plastic surgery .... AND THEN she STILL had the plastic surgery????? another crazy wantabe