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Stephanie Kuleba was 18, a senior at West Boca High School in Boca Raton, FL, was already accepted to college, and was already thinking ahead to attending medical school and being a doctor. “Was” is a sad word here. Stephanie died after having breast augmentation surgery in the office of a Boca Raton plastic surgeon.
A lot is being made of the fact that Stephanie was having breast surgery. A lot is being made of the fact that she was a blonde young woman, in a well-to-do town, who was already beautiful, and was the head cheerleader at her high school.
Those facts are neither here nor there. Stephanie died because of an inherited condition called malignant hyperthermia (MH) that made using gas anesthesia very dangerous for her. She had never had any anesthesia in the past and there was absolutely no way for her, her parents, or her plastic surgeon to predict that having gas anesthesia was dangerous for her.
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