A woman's body was retrieved from her family during her wake after doctors believed they had missed a crucial factor in her death — before being “rushed back” in time for her funeral that morning, her inquest has heard.
The jury in the case returned a verdict of medical misadventure, deciding that Olive McGuire died as a result of acute fecal peritonitis, where her abdomen became fatally infected, along with damage to a cerebral artery and a perforated bowel.
They had earlier heard from the Chief State Pathologist, who said that a punctured artery that allegedly went “unrecognised” by a doctor during a medical procedure was “likely” to have formed a blood clot which resulted in a stroke and contributed to her death in 2009.
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The 32-year-old, who was from Ballickmoyler, Co Carlow, was readmitted to St Luke’s Hospital in Kilkenny with abdominal pain, vomiting and constipation on Saturday June 13, 2009, having suffered a blood clot and stroke, later dying on June 24.
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