Familie sucht nach Antworten, nachdem eine Frau gestorben ist, die 11 Stunden in der Notaufnahme gewartet hat
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/article/family-seeks-answers-after-woman-who-waited-11-hours-in-er-dies/
Familie sucht nach Antworten, nachdem eine Frau gestorben ist, die 11 Stunden in der Notaufnahme gewartet hat
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/article/family-seeks-answers-after-woman-who-waited-11-hours-in-er-dies/
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It’s really the six and a half hour wait from when they realized that her troponin levels were high combined with severe chest pain to being seen by a doctor that’s the frightening thing here. Something really went wrong. It would be different (but stiff awful) if she was triaged improperly and waited 11 hours, but they had the info and she still went unseen for another six and a half hours.
Until the chart review is complete, nobody outside the hospital can say definitively whether:
* triage failed
* staff ignored results
* OR the condition suddenly worsened late
All three scenarios look identical in headlines so nobody should be jumping to conclusions.
Reports say she also had:
* pneumonia
* sepsis
* coronary disease
That combination is extremely dangerous.
Even with perfect treatment:
* some heart attacks are instantly fatal
* some patients collapse suddenly from arrhythmia
* some already have massive artery blockage
* sepsis + pneumonia can destabilize the heart rapidly
All that being said, I’m glad they are investigating this to see if there was anything done improperly or if certain things need to change but weren’t necessarily wrong.