Kellum Thomas: Battery ran out in device to monitor boy's heart

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A coroner raises concerns about the medical care of Kellum Thomas, who died from a cardiac arrest

A coroner has raised concerns about the medical care of a 13-year-old boy who died after having a cardiac arrest.

Kellum's medication should also have been doubled, but was not, because of a three-month delay sending a letter. She intends to send a Prevention of Future Deaths report to the chief executive of Birmingham Children's Hospital, where Kellum had been treated."The main thing to take from today is it hopefully benefits other children and parents," said Kellum's father, Perris Thomas.

"I hope they speed up the processes for medication," Kellum's grandmother said. "If a cardiologist can write a prescription why can't they write it there and then?"Kellum first had a cardiac arrest on 11 July 2016, when he was getting out of a swimming pool, and was successfully resuscitated by a lifeguard.The device showed that Kellum had brief arrhythmias, where his heart sometimes had clusters of extra beats.

Dr Bhole said this was partly due to the Covid-19 pandemic and also said: "I think it's to do with capacity, because we have one person doing this type of procedure in the Midlands.""What we want to establish is this is not going to happen to some other young boy, so we've got to have systems in place to prevent that."

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