A young woman died giving birth to her second child after a catalogue of failings by the medical practitioners who should have been protecting the life of both her and her baby, as revealed in The Times.
After a difficult natural delivery of her first baby, Frances Cappuccini requested a C-Section for the delivery of her second child. However, she was allowed to struggle with labour for 12 hours before the decision was made to undertake a caesarean.
During the delivery, a piece of the placenta was not removed from the womb, later described by a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist as “a fundamental failure of care”. Signs of sepsis and a possible kidney injury also went unnoticed, and, shortly after the successful delivery of her baby, Mrs Cappuccini lost four pints of blood.
This disastrous situation was exacerbated by the late arrival of an on-call anaesthetist, the lack of suitable medication being readily available, as well as the premature removal of a breathing tube.
Although preparations were undertaken to resolve the bleeding, Mrs. Cappuccini suffered a fatal heart attack.
The senior coroner at the inquest described her shocking death as the result of “failures, inadequate diagnosis and treatment” at Tunbridge Wells Hospital.
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