A Tasmanian coroner has found the ambulance service failed to correctly prioritise a case where a man was showing multiple heart attack symptoms.
A coroner has found Ambulance Tasmania failed to send an ambulance to a 64-year-old man who was having a heart attack because his case was not categorised as urgent.
A Tasmanian man died after an ambulance was not sent to him when his wife first told triple-0 operators he had symptoms consistent with a heart attack, a coroner has found. "In the call she told the operator the age of her husband , that he had developed sudden onset of sweating, shortness of breath and shoulder pain — all symptoms of a heart attack," Mr Cooper said.
Mr Cooper said Mr Lukacevich's wife called triple-0 again at 12pm, by which time Mr Lukacevich had collapsed, was blue and not breathing.
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