A kidney patient suffered cardiac arrest during dialysis at Scania University Hospital in Malmö this summer. The defibrillator they tried to use didn’t work, even though it had been checked just a few hours earlier, as Siren also reported.
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The patient died
According to a report to the Swedish Medicines Agency, the staff started treatment after running and fetching another defibrillator, but the patient died. However, the death is not considered to have been due to the treatment being delayed.
Defibrillators in ambulances out of order
The provider has checked the defibrillator
A little later in the event, the troublesome device was started, which has not had a problem either before or since. The defibrillator has also been checked by the supplier.
Recently, attention has also been drawn to the fact that a number of new defibrillators for the ambulances in Skåne did not work in emergency situations last year.
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