25-year-old girl died of meningitis after doctors told her that she suffers from panic attacks. The patient was discharged from the hospital and sent home actually to death.
A resident of the Lancashire Sarah Cullen died from meningitis 6 days after doctors at the hospital told her that she suffers from panic attacks. After installation of this diagnosis, the girl was sent home with prescriptions for sedatives. Unfortunately, after a short time she returned to the hospital being in a coma, And soon her parents had to make the hardest decision in their lives – to disconnect the daughter from the artificial life support because her brain had died. Initially she came to the hospital with complaints of numbness in one part of the body, the girl uttered bad words and showed confusion.
For some reason the doctors decided that all of this is symptoms of panic attacks, after examination, they sent the patient home and advised to take anti-anxiety medications. The next morning a friend found Sarah unconscious on the bathroom floor. The girl was taken to a medical facility, examination showed that she had a massive stroke on the background of meningitis. Doctors have only to sincerely apologize for Sara’s parents, who could hardly remedy the difficult situation. After a short time the doctors admitted that the chances of rescue are not, and the brain the victim suffered irreversible damage.
The autopsy showed that Sarah Cullen was suffering from acute bacterial meningitis is a very rapidly developing inflammation of the brain and spinal tissue. Theoretically, a girl could be saved at the time of first treatment in the hospital if Sarah was connected to IV with strong antibiotics and other powerful drugs. It is unknown whether the parents sue the hospital, but the mistake in diagnosis, as a rule, is not a reason for compensation. (READ MORE)