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Hello Mrs. Joseph Leone and children,   First let me say that I am sorry for your loss.  It must be incredibly difficult to raise your children without your husband and their father.  And certainly, thinking that your husband died needlessly must complicate your emotions tremendously.   That being said, let me try to answer your question.   A triple bypass surgery is a very serious surgery for coronary artery disease.  Presumably, your husband had the surgery because his coronary arteries (those that supply the heart with blood) were severely blocked, and he may have had a heart attack, or damage to the heart from too little blood flow over a long period of time.    One of the complications from a heart attack and sometimes from a long-standing reduced blood flow to the heart is a ventricular aneurysm.  This is when the ventricle, or the part the of heart that pumps blood to your entire body, balloons outward and the heart muscle can no longer pump blood effectively.   If you have a ventricular aneurysm, the surgery to repair the heart is performed to increase the ability of the heart to pump blood to your body.  It is a very serious surgery.  If your heart is very severely damaged, so much that your need a new heart, the repair can make your heart pump well enough until you can have a transplant.   You mention blood poisoning in your post, which many times is a common way of saying that there is an infection in your blood. Unfortunately, one of the most life-threatening complications from such a long, complicated, and serious surgery as ventricular repair is a blood infection (or septicemia/sepsis).  When this happens, antibiotics are used to treat the infection but very sadly, they do not always work well enough to save a patient's life.   Again, I am sorry for your loss.   To you and your children's well-being, Neil MD