Mother dies に引き続いて 決まりきった仕事 hysterectomy after 肝臓 失敗 警告 調印するs went unheeded

By James Tozer for the Daily Mail
Updated: 16:52 BST, 8 July 2009

A healthy mother died in hospital に引き続いて a 決まりきった仕事 hysterectomy after 警告 調印するs that she was 苦しむing 肝臓 失敗 went unheeded.

Lesley Cahill, 50, 推定する／予想するd to be 支援する home a few days after を受けるing 外科, but instead of 回復するing she became 刻々と more ill.

Yet it was not until 11 days after the 操作／手術 that her 猛烈に worried husband was told how bad things were, and she died three days later.

Now a 検死官 has criticised the '容認できない' 公式文書，認める-taking that meant her failing 肝臓 was not 選ぶd up sooner.

Lesley Cahill, pictured with her husband John, died from a rare reaction to an anaesthetic after a 決まりきった仕事 hysterectomy 操作／手術

He 支配するd that she had died from a 'one in a million' reaction to anaesthetic and 受託するd doctors' 保証／確信s that nothing could have been done to save her in any 事例／患者.

But now her distraught family are planning 合法的な 活動／戦闘, 説 that if doctors had done a better 職業 she might have been alive to see her son's wedding next month.

Mrs Cahill, who ran a hair salon with her husband John in Hazel Grove, Greater Manchester, was 認める to Stepping Hill Hospital, Stockport on August 12 last year for an elective hysterectomy.

The 操作／手術 appeared to have been a success, but she remained 貧しく and st arted vomiting before 存在 診断するd with 肺炎, and then on the 18th her heart began racing 危険に 急速な／放蕩な.

肝臓 機能（する）／行事 実験（する）s over the next few days showed ますます 異常な results, but these were not 株d with specialists until August 23 when she was put in 集中的な care, by which time she had begun hallucinating.

It was only then that doctors 確認するd the 疑惑s her husband had held for days that something was 本気で wrong.

By now she was too ill to be considered for a 移植（する）, and she died three days later, two weeks after her 操作／手術.

At an 検死 in Stockport, the hospital 認める 'poor' 記録，記録的な／記録する-keeping, but said even if Mrs Cahill's 肝臓 失敗 had been （悪事，秘密などを）発見するd earlier, they couldn't have saved her.

検死官 John Pollard said: 'Her general care seems to have been variable at best, and the 基準 and level of communication between the medics and nurses and the family left much to be 願望（する）d.

'Not at all for the first time in an 検死, I have to say the 質 of 公式文書，認める keeping by both 医療の and nursing staff fell very short of 許容できる.'

述べるing her care as 'below optimal', he 追加するd: 'I don't think this 影響する／感情d the 結果 of this 事例／患者, but it so easily could have done.'

Mr Pollard 記録，記録的な／記録するd a 判決 of misadventure, and has written to the hospital to 需要・要求する staff keep better 記録，記録的な／記録するs.

However Mrs Cahill's family are taking 合法的な advice on whether better care could have saved her.

'She was perfectly healthy and she only went in for a 決まりきった仕事 操作／手術, but she didn't come out again,' said Mr Cahill.

'We told staff she wasn't eating or drinking, but nobody seemed 関心d, even when she began slipping in and out of consciousness.

'We might be able to start coming to 条件 with her death if we felt she'd been 井戸／弁護士席 cared for, but instead we'll always be left wondering whether it would have made a difference if they'd 診断するd her sooner.'

Mr Cahill, whose children, Ashley, 2 6, and Emily, 22, are both teachers, 追加するd: 'We've never had an explanation or an 陳謝 from the hospital. We're heartbroken.'

His solicitor, Stephen Jones, of 法律 会社／堅い Pannone, said: 'No-one in the hospital seemed to know what anyone else was doing, and all the while her 肝臓 実験（する） results were getting worse and worse.

'We are 捜し出すing 専門家 advice on whether anything more could have been done if they had been on 最高の，を越す of the 状況／情勢.'

This afternoon Dr Chris Burke, 長，指導者 (n)役員／(a)執行力のある of Stockport NHS 創立／基礎 信用, 表明するd the hospital's 'sincere 弔慰s' to the family.

He 追加するd: 'Her very sad, 予期しない death was 原因（となる）d by a "one in a million" undiagnosable reaction to her anaesthetic.

'We have taken 公式文書，認める of the 検死官's comments and when we receive his letter will 答える／応じる in 詳細（に述べる）.'