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It has also been ordered to apologise to the woman s family.
The woman, aged in her 20s, went to the Emergency Department with worsening abdominal pain, vomiting and an increasing CRP (a protein made in the liver), showing signs of infection.
On her third visit to ED, a CT scan found that her small bowel lacked blood supply and was significantly compromised. Her condition was deemed non-survivable and she later died.
Health and Disability Commissioner Morag McDowell considered that the issue in this case was not the failure to diagnose the woman s condition correctly, but the failure to investigate the cause of the woman s symptoms fully, given her increasingly deteriorating clinical picture.
Press Release – Office of the Health and Disability Commissioner Health and Disability Commissioner Morag McDowell today released a report finding South Canterbury District Health Board (SCDHB) in breach of the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers Rights (the Code) for a number of failures in its …
Health and Disability Commissioner Morag McDowell today released a report finding South Canterbury District Health Board (SCDHB) in breach of the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights (the Code) for a number of failures in its care of a woman in 2019.
The woman, aged in her twenties, presented to the Emergency Department (ED) three times with worsening abdominal pain, vomiting and an increasing CRP level – a marker of infection.
Young woman may have been saved by earlier diagnosis by South Canterbury DHB: HDC Mon, 26 Jul 2021, 3:22PM
Several doctors at South Canterbury DHB were found to have contributed to the failures of care provided to a young woman who went to the ED in immense pain. ( Photo / 123rf )
Young woman may have been saved by earlier diagnosis by South Canterbury DHB: HDC Mon, 26 Jul 2021, 3:22PM
South Canterbury DHB has been criticised for failing to fully investigate a young woman s worsening symptoms which left her crying and screaming out in pain until it was deemed too late to do anything and she died just days later.
Monday, 26 July 2021, 2:01 pm
Health and Disability Commissioner Morag McDowell today
released a report finding South Canterbury District Health
Board (SCDHB) in breach of the Code of Health and Disability
Services Consumers’ Rights (the Code) for a number of
failures in its care of a woman in 2019.
The woman,
aged in her twenties, presented to the Emergency Department
(ED) three times with worsening abdominal pain, vomiting and
an increasing CRP level - a marker of infection.
On
her third visit to ED, a CT scan found that her small bowel
lacked blood supply and was significantly compromised. Her
condition was deemed non-survivable and, sadly, she later
Rachael Comer15:46, Jul 26 2021
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The South Canterbury District Health Board has been found to have breached the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights.
An investigation into the death of a woman at Timaru Hospital has identified a number of failures by the South Canterbury District Health Board (SCDHB), a report by the Health and Disability Commissioner says. The SCDHB has been found to have breached the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights for a number of failures in its care of the woman, aged in her 20s, who presented to the hospital’s emergency department three times with worsening abdominal pain, vomiting and an increasing CRP level – a marker of infection, in 2019.