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Verdict of medical misadventure in Nora Hyland inquest

A verdict of medical misadventure has been returned at the inquest of a Malaysian woman who died ...
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21.24 21 Oct 2014


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Verdict of medical misadventure in Nora Hyland inquest

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21.24 21 Oct 2014


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A verdict of medical misadventure has been returned at the inquest of a Malaysian woman who died within hours of undergoing an emergency C-Section at the National Maternity Hospital.

31-year-old Nora Hyland of Charlotte Quay in Dublin had to wait over a half an hour for a blood transfusion after she suffered severe bleeding.

Hyland - a Malaysian woman married to an Irishman - underwent an emergency caesarean section to deliver her son Frederick in Holles Street on February 13th 2012.

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She went into cardiac arrest after she was given a blood transfusion and died within 3 hours of her son being born.

It emerged during the inquest into her death that no blood was kept in operating theatres in the hospital at the time.

Holles Street has since put a fridge containing emergency blood units in theatre.

Today the Dublin Coroner Dr Brian Farrell concluded Nora Hyland had died from cardiac arrest as a result of severe post natal bleeding.

He said he could not say if the delay in giving her blood was a "definite" risk factor in her death.

This evening, the Master of Holles Street Rhona Mahony said the staff's thoughts are with Nora Hyland's family

She said there are lessons to be learned after every major adverse event and that the hospital has looked to learn everything possible from, what she termed, this tragic outcome.


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