A 32-year-old cancer patient young mother died after Skaraborgs hospitals have made serious mistakes in connection with that woman should be treated with chemotherapy, writes GT. The small tube that is surgically inserted in the throat to be checked by X-ray of a physician. This was never done, and belatedly discovered that the hose was sitting wrong. When the woman got its first reading in January, cytostatic straight into the pericardium instead of a blood vessel.
– But this was followed nor our routines. Before chemotherapy begins, the staff always inject a little saline and then suck it back in to make sure that the hose is located in a blood vessel. It was not, says the hospital’s medical director Stefan Håkansson, told the newspaper.
The woman lost consciousness, and when the doctor finally came to carry out CPR, it was too late. The hospital has made a Lex Maria notification.
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