The family of a 67-year-old Cape Breton woman says she died at home after waiting seven hours without seeing a doctor and deciding to leave the emergency department.
SYDNEY, N.S. - The family of a Nova Scotia woman says she died at home after waiting seven hours without seeing a doctor and deciding to leave the emergency department.
However, Snow says her mother-in-law had a heart attack and died at about 9:45 p.m., about an hour after returning to her house in Donkin, N.S., about 30 kilometres east of the hospital in Sydney. The family has been told that Charlene didn’t realize she had hemopericardium, a condition where blood accumulates behind the heart.
“I would hope that if she’d seen a doctor that her symptoms would have presented and she would have had the fluid drained and maybe still be with us” said Snow. News of Charlene Snow’s case follows recent revelations about the death of 37-year-old Allison Holthoff, who waited more than six hours in the emergency department in Amherst, N.S., before she was taken to a room inside the unit. The mother of three died at the Cumberland Regional Health Centre on Dec. 31.
After being triaged by hospital staff, she waited more than six hours in the emergency department before she was taken to a room inside the unit, he said. It was another hour before she saw a doctor and received pain treatment.
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