1.0 link 166552 <![CDATA[Usher's Wife Had Pre-Plastic Surgery Cardiac Arrest]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/12/ushers-wife-had-preplasti_n_166552.html SAO PAULO &mdash; 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...

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