Potentially lifesaving antibiotics prescribed to a pregnant woman as her health deteriorated at a Melbourne hospital were left forgotten by her bedside and not administered as she miscarried her unborn baby and later died | epearson_3
Potentially lifesaving antibiotics prescribed to a pregnant woman as her health deteriorated at a Melbourne hospital were left forgotten by her bedside and not administered as she miscarried her unborn baby and later died.
There, emergency department doctor Hui Shi diagnosed Moylan with gastroenteritis before she began to miscarry. Moylan was then taken by ambulance to St Vincent’s Private Hospital, where her obstetrician, Vicky Nott, worked.A post-mortem examination determined her cause of death was intrapartum septicaemia, secondary to a group A streptococcal infection.
The inquest was told one of the male paramedics who arrived with Moylan then asked the midwife “what is normal blood loss?” and said he’d noticed about 400 millilitres when loading the patient for transfer. Over the hours that followed, the inquest heard, Moylan continued to lose blood and her temperature remained high.
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