John Follon died after a lead from the machine became disconnected, triggering an alarm at the nurses' station which was then switched off, a coroner was told.
A pensioner died in hospital after an alert from his heart monitor was 'silenced' by a member of staff, an inquest heard.
In light of his death, a coroner has warned the Cardiff & Vale University Health Board that others may die in ‘similar circumstances’ at the hospital where nurses are still 'permitted to silence the alarm' at night to 'minimise noise'. An inquest into Mr Follon's death heard the pensioner visited his GP with 'chest pains and breathlessness' on November 17, 2022.
For this reason, Mr Follon was being tracked on the Coronary Care Unit by telemetry, a monitor which displays a patient's heart rhythm and activity at a central nurse's station. 'Neither the cause nor time of the cardiac arrest can be established as there was no monitoring during the period from when the lead became detached until his death.'
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