Teenage girl who got septic arthritis was failed by Hutt health board – commissioner – Stuff.co.nz
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The Well being and Incapacity Commissioner has held Hutt Valley District Well being Board Responsible for failing a teenage woman, who ended up with septic arthritis. (File photograph)
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Rosa Woods/Stuff
The Well being and Incapacity Commissioner has held Hutt Valley District Well being Board Responsible for failing a teenage woman, who ended up with septic arthritis. (File photograph)
Hutt Valley District Well being Board says it has boosted staff quantitys in its emergency dehalfment by A third after a teenage woman with a sports activities damage ended up with septic arthritis, Ensuing in a quantity of surgical procedures and months in hospital.
The problems she suffered Inside the hospital’s care imply her athletic future stays not sure, Based mostly on a ruling launched right now from Well being and Incapacity Commissioner Morag McDoproperly.
The woman, who has not been named, went to Hutt Hospital’s ED twice in Finally in September 2019 with growing knee ache after having fun with sport. The emergency dehalfment was overloaded all by way of her second go to that day, so she was assessed Inside the pfinaler room – which has no gear for measuring very important indicators and was not staffed by a nurse.
She was given morphine, recognized with a knee damage, and despatched house.
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The doctor who assessed her all by way of that go to admitted he made a mistake by not going to get devices to doc her very important indicators.
The teenager returned to ED three days later after the ache unfold to her left knee, had an X-ray, and was recognized with Osgood-Schlatter illness, an overuse damage That always occurs in rising adolescents.
By September 23, seven days after her first go to to ED, she returned very unproperly and was finally recognized with septic arthritis – a unusual bacterial joint an infection – in each knees.
She ended up needing a quantity of surgical procedures on her knees and forearms, ICU care, contracted pneumonia, and spent months in hospital.
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