Blackpool Victoria Hospital stroke unit...
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"Stroke 'played no part' in hospital patient death"
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy9neq9e7qqo
A horrific thing to have occurred.
And that's the latest in a range of hellish goings on there:
https://www.lancs.live/news/lancashire-news/every-...
World class care there.
Oh, and if you're noticing things, stop noticing!
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy9neq9e7qqo
A horrific thing to have occurred.
And that's the latest in a range of hellish goings on there:
https://www.lancs.live/news/lancashire-news/every-...
World class care there.
Oh, and if you're noticing things, stop noticing!
My mother died in July a couple of days after being discharged from Blackpool Vic.
She had been admitted for a week with severe abdominal pain. This was causing her to be constantly sick, which was irritating her hiatus hernia, and stopping her keeping her Parkinsons meds down. The cause of the pain was a kidney stone, which they declined to treat immediately and said would deal with in outpatients. She was discharged after a week, and then readmitted with the same symptoms a week later. They kept her in for a couple of days and then sent her home, still symptomatic. She was discharged with Oxycodone for the pain, which she had not previously been given in hospital. She died a couple of days later. Cause of death was aspiration pneumonia.
It seems to me that the risk of attempting to treat the kidney stone was given excessive weight over the risk of not treating it. That Parkinsons disease and constant vomiting is a high risk combination for aspiration pneumonia. That opioids which further increase the risk of aspiration pneumonia should not have been first given outside a clinical setting. That she should not have been discharged in that condition.
She had been admitted for a week with severe abdominal pain. This was causing her to be constantly sick, which was irritating her hiatus hernia, and stopping her keeping her Parkinsons meds down. The cause of the pain was a kidney stone, which they declined to treat immediately and said would deal with in outpatients. She was discharged after a week, and then readmitted with the same symptoms a week later. They kept her in for a couple of days and then sent her home, still symptomatic. She was discharged with Oxycodone for the pain, which she had not previously been given in hospital. She died a couple of days later. Cause of death was aspiration pneumonia.
It seems to me that the risk of attempting to treat the kidney stone was given excessive weight over the risk of not treating it. That Parkinsons disease and constant vomiting is a high risk combination for aspiration pneumonia. That opioids which further increase the risk of aspiration pneumonia should not have been first given outside a clinical setting. That she should not have been discharged in that condition.
king horrific.Every so often in various threads I will occasionally mention frequent flyer membership of NHS hospital
Parking passes.
Blackpool Vic Stroke Unit is a large part of that reason.
First up, I was born in Blackpool Vic, as was pretty much my entire family.
Laterly, well 12yrs ago now my father was admitted in there initially with TIAs. This became a full stroke incident not too long after, relatively shortly before the 72nd Goodwood MM.
We have spent a long time in and out of the Vic Stroke Unit with, well, sub optimal results.
Last week mum finally put him in a home after a 10yr losing battle to get him to walk again and talk again.
It is not my favourite place.
Oh and if dad ever bumped into you at Goodwood on subsequent MM in the buggy, then sorry, he had to learn how to control it with the wrong working hand!!
Parking passes.
Blackpool Vic Stroke Unit is a large part of that reason.
First up, I was born in Blackpool Vic, as was pretty much my entire family.
Laterly, well 12yrs ago now my father was admitted in there initially with TIAs. This became a full stroke incident not too long after, relatively shortly before the 72nd Goodwood MM.
We have spent a long time in and out of the Vic Stroke Unit with, well, sub optimal results.
Last week mum finally put him in a home after a 10yr losing battle to get him to walk again and talk again.
It is not my favourite place.
Oh and if dad ever bumped into you at Goodwood on subsequent MM in the buggy, then sorry, he had to learn how to control it with the wrong working hand!!
Edited by DeejRC on Friday 26th September 23:31
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