Hours before his partner gave birth to their daughter, she found Thomas dead in their home due to an undiagnosed heart defect.
A dad-to-be who died on the day of his daughter's birth may have lived to meet her had a heart defect not been missed, a coroner has ruled.on 7 June 2023, as she got ready to go to hospital for an elective caesarean.When he didn't respond, she went to kiss him but found him stiff and cold.
Coroner Christopher Morris said: "Had this been appreciated Mr Gibson would have been admitted under the care of cardiologists, a series of investigations undertaken, which would probably have culminated in an implantable device, such as a pacemaker being fitted.
Dr Matthew Thornber, a consultant at the hospital, said the two ECGs taken were not “textbook” examples of looking like a heart block condition and such diagnosis requires nuance and experience.The coroner said he would be writing a prevention of future deaths report, addressed to the chief executive of the Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust and the National Institute of Clinical Excellence concerning clinical practice around the interpretation of ECG scans.
“The Trust has undertaken a thorough investigation to examine the circumstances following Mr Gibson’s very sad death, and we apologise for where our care has fallen short of the high standards to which we aspire.
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