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Woman dies after emergency treatment
    2018-07-25  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

A RESIDENT from Longhua District said her mother, 52, died at Longhua People’s Hospital after receiving two injections over seven hours last month and that the family doubted the hospital had carried out proper emergency care for the patient, according to the Southern Metropolis Daily.

The hospital released a preliminary conclusion that the patient had died from rare aortic dissection. However an autopsy conducted by a third-party agency will confirm whether the hospital was right about the cause of death and whether the hospital was responsible.

The resident, surnamed Yang, sent her mother, known as Yan, to the hospital at around noon June 28 for a stomachache that had lasted for more than four hours with a high blood pressure of 160. The woman had a history of high blood pressure.

Medical staff at the hospital gave Yan an injection in the afternoon and then arranged an array of examinations, but the injection did not help relieve Yan’s pain, according to the daughter.

The patient’s blood pressure soared to over 200 at around 5 p.m. and she was still suffering from a severe stomachache. The doctor decided to give her another injection.

When asked about the function of the two injections, the doctor replied they were to relieve the patient’s pain and reduce her blood pressure. In less than two minutes after the second injection, Yan passed out, began foaming at the mouth, and never woke up. Her life was sustained for several hours by machines, but was terminated by 7:28 p.m.

According to Yang, she was asked by the hospital to sign a critically ill notice to state that she was aware of her mother’s life-threatening condition, but the notice did not specify the cause of the condition. The doctor’s explanation was that they had not yet discovered the cause of the patient’s pain.

So, Yang and her family questioned the hospital’s emergency treatment of the patient. Yang also disclosed that her mother’s doctor had received two different CT examination reports in less than one hour and that she heard a staffer from the CT room say that the first report was wrong.

“The second report we got suggested my mother had heart problems,” said Yang, who doubted the rigorousness of the hospital’s diagnosis.

In response, a person in charge of the hospital later recalled to the Daily that they had conducted the necessary examinations on the patient, but that emergency treatment failed to bring her back to life.

The hospital said that since the patient’s condition got worse over a fairly short period of time, they could not manage to get an accurate diagnosis before the patient passed away. An autopsy was arranged to check the cause of the patient’s death, and the hospital promised that it would take responsibility if any misconduct were found to have occurred during diagnosis and treatment.

Regarding to the two CT reports, the hospital explained that the medical staffer in the CT room made an additional comment on the second report that suggested a small pericardial effusion. The hospital said the procedure was appropriate and met the requirements of emergency diagnosis.

The hospital said it had properly stored the two CT reports and had also provided copies to the patient’s family.

Five days after Yan’s death, a judiciary agency conducted an autopsy on the patient’s remains, and its preliminary conclusion was that Yan had died from cardiac tamponade due to a ruptured aortic dissection. An official report will be released within 30 workdays of the date of the autopsy.

According to the newspaper, aortic dissection is a highly fatal condition. Almost three-quarters of patients with complications caused by aortic dissection will die without timely rescue.

(Zhang Qian)

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