A patient had suffered a heart attack and was admitted to Ryhov county hospital in Jönköping. There, the patient received several types of blood-thinning medication after the treatment.
A referral was then sent to the patient’s health center, which would continue the medication and help stop part of the treatment after one month.
Medication contributed to the patient’s death
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But the health center never ended the treatment. According to the lex Maria notification which News24 taken note of, it may have contributed to the fact that the patient later died of a severe cerebral haemorrhage.
The bleeding was too great to operate
The risk of bleeding increases when different blood-thinning medications are combined. The patient ate three different kinds over a longer period than what the county hospital in Jönköping wrote in its referral to the health center.
When the stroke patient came back to the hospital as an emergency six months later, the bleeding was deemed inoperable, according to the notification to the Health Care Inspectorate, and the patient died.
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