Respiratory physician who performed a home cricothyroidotomy on his wife will not face criminal charges
But a tribunal has upheld Dr Peter Spencer's emergency suspension over his actions the night his wife died.
Dr Peter Spencer who performed a home cricothyroidotomy on his wife following a seizure will not face criminal charges but remains barred from practice after a tribunal upheld his emergency suspension.
Last year, a coroner referred him to prosecutors for investigation over the death of Mayumi Spencer in January 2015.
She died at her Melbourne home of cocaine toxicity, following a seizure and vomiting with aspiration, with the drug likely injected, the inquest found.
While Dr Spencer had performed CPR on his wife and at one point attempted a cricothyroidotomy using a knife and pen, the inquest said he waited more than three hours before calling an ambulance.
