An inquest heard claims that hospital doctors wrongly dismissed her condition as being linked to cannabis use
The family of a 'bubbly, bright and beautiful' woman have shared their heartache after she died aged 31 - just days after complaining of a headache.
By that time, the inquest heard Kirsty had entered a 'vasospasm period', where arteries narrow and restrict blood flow to the brain, causing brain tissue to die. She claimed nurses and doctors weren't getting handovers and 'nobody knew what they were doing' as Kirsty was having spasms."Kirsty was active. She walked everywhere. She was so bubbly. She messaged me and said 'mum, my legs feel like jelly'. I told her to ring an ambulance. She wasn't making sense to me on the phone. She just did not seem like Kirsty. She was bright and beautiful.
Dr Michael Hughes, a consultant radiologist, was working for a private company the hospital outsourced scans to out of hours. He reported the scan didn't show evidence of a bleed when it did, the inquest heard. Giving evidence, he said it was a 'subtle finding' of a bleed on the brain, and that he was 'disappointed' he did not put more 'significance' on what the scan showed.
Courtney Lomax, a matron in urgent care at the hospital, admitted neurological observations weren't undertaken as they should have been in line with hospital policy. Kirsty, the inquest was told, had no physical, visible head injury. "I can only apologise that the family feel that they were not listened to," said Ms Lomax.
Dr John McDonald, an intensive care unit consultant, said she had a 'very significant brain injury' and 'the outcome for Kirsty was poor'. The hospital tried to increase her blood pressure to get more blood into her brain, but the inquest heard that failed and there were 'no surgical options to improve the situation or reverse the decline'.
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