Is poor NHS hygiene responsible for Jasmines death

[joebloggs]

inquest into a death of a filipina mother, Swindon and Marlborough NHS Trust has admitted liability for the mistake

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article....&in_page_id=34

[andypaul]

inquest into a death of a filipina mother, Swindon and Marlborough NHS Trust has admitted liability for the mistake

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article....&in_page_id=34

Was the headline yesterday, sadly many people are being either made very ill or dieing from infections caught in the hospitals many dont make the media, i know of several very sad cases just from people in my circle of friends of realtives going to hospital and never leaving. May they all rest in peace .

[LadyJ]

inquest into a death of a filipina mother, Swindon and Marlborough NHS Trust has admitted liability for the mistake

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article....&in_page_id=34

Todays breaking news!

Mum Unlawfully Killed By NHS Blunder
Updated:14:45, Tuesday February 05, 2008

A mum who died following a hospital blunder shortly after giving birth was unlawfully killed, an inquest jury has ruled.
Mayra Cabrera, 30, began to fit soon after a bag of Bupivacaine - a potent anaesthetic - was wrongly fed into a vein in her hand via an intravenous drip.

Mayra and her son ZacIt should only be given in an epidural and administered to the patient's spinal cord, a month long inquest in Trowbridge heard.

Mrs Cabrera gave birth to son Zac, who survived, at the Great Western Hospital in Swindon at 8.14am in May 2004.

But by 9am - shortly after the error - she began to fit and was pronounced dead at 10.27am.

The jury said gross negligence by Swindon & Marlborough NHS Trust, specifically sub-standard storage of drugs in the maternity unit, had led to the death.

Mrs Cabrera, who lived in Swindon and worked at the GWH, died from a heart attack caused by Bupivacaine toxicity, her inquest heard.

But her husband, Arnel Cabrera, was told immediately afterwards that she had died from an amniotic fluid embolism, the inquest heard.

However, he learned a year later, after instructing a lawyer, that she had in fact died because Bupivacaine had been administered wrongly.

Midwife Marie To came on duty just after the birth and is alleged to have attached the Bupivacaine to Mrs Cabrera's drip.

During the inquest she repeatedly denied she had made the blunder which led to the Filipino theatre nurse's death.

She insisted she thought it was either saline solution or Gelofusine, a blood volume expander to boost blood pressure.

Swindon & Marlborough NHS Trust admitted liability but, following a police inquiry, the Crown Prosecution Service decided not to charge anyone.

The month-long hearing was told there had been two other deaths at hospitals in the UK in the last decade caused by Bupivacaine being administered intravenously.