Husband and I paid to see a private consultant 8 weeks earlier. We had googlled 80-100 diastolic rates.... got told statistics show he live to 80 WITHOUT heart attack or stroke! No need for meds. His diatolic would drop at 50.....
8 weeks later. Dead. He knew he was in trouble from 3pm. He died at 00.20. No medical assessment done in those 8 hours at all by the hospital. 3 of those hours stuck in a corridor. The actual detail from the consultant in A&E that night which was sent to coroner (less than 200 words) said no medical assessment had taken place when they found him. At that point (too blooming late!) he had died. Cpr at that point with aortic dissection when alrta splits transversely is beyond help by then.
My hubby sometimes got neck/back/shoulder ache as the many of us do.
This was different. The pain in left arm to elbow and in his chest was enough to immediately agree for ambulance...
He was conscious up until death. In pain.
You must be so angry? Which is very understandable.
OMG. It's so scary. Depends on what day or time you get a problem, it seems.
Can the nhs not know when they are busiest to supply more room/help/cat scan operators etc?
All other business do.!!!!!
Jeremy Hunt I understood was starting to listen.
I guess not soon enough.
I guess when we are looking for medical help we don't give enough resources to the heart/circulatory section of the nhs. British Heart Foundation are doing loads but maybe nhs not matching their efforts or resources?
Surely heart risk is one of the biggest urgent cases in a A&E dept? OK severe bleeding or pneumonia too but we can help abroad in times of crisis. Why can we not help at home more effectively, in a crisis?
It thoroughly annoys me.
Your husband was too young to die !!!!