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Fall victim died two days after hospital release
A RETIRED bus conductor who hit her head when she fell over died two days after being sent home from hospital.
Agnes Queen Henderson, 94, of Halton Road, off Essex Road, Islington, died from massive internal bleeding to the brain within 24 hours of being taken to Whittington Hospital in Archway after feeling unwell.
Two days before her death in March she had been released from University College London Hospital (UCLH) in Euston. Staff at its accident and emergency ward diagnosed her as suffering from a scalp rather than head injury.
Dr Anne McGuinness told a St Pancras inquest a junior doctor decided against giving a brain scan, which could have revealed internal bleeding, because Mrs Henderson did not show outward signs of a head injury. She added that in older people a fall and subsequent bleeding in the brain could take more than a month to affect the patient. Mrs Henderson was taken to Whittington Hospital after a carer noticed swelling on her arm and chest. She appeared to have a stroke before collapsing and dying.
Coroner Dr Andrew Reid said she died from “minor accidental trauma associated with morphine treatment and old age”. He added: “There is no evidence of any lack of care or attention in this case.” |
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Your comments:
I was unemployed for over 5 years as a youth in a troubled northern city. I never once took this as an excuse to commit violent acts.These men are animals. This kind of behaviour has been a blight on this part of London for too long. Excuses over.
Jack
Two of the murderers never had a drink that night, and neither did any of their family at the Old Bailey abusing the victims family on sentence day. The lot of them will rot in hell. Sort the kids out before its to late
Des Kinsella
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