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The Swedish Health and Care Inspectorate (Ivo) criticizes a doctor from Örnsköldsvik who sent home a woman who died two days later. Stock Photography.
A 45-year-old woman who came to a health center in Örnsköldsvik with chest pain was sent home with cough medicine. Two days later, she died of a blood clot in her lungs.
The doctor is now criticized by the Swedish Health and Care Inspectorate (Ivo) for not treating the patient properly, writes allehanda.se.
In addition to chest pain when inhaling, the woman had a severe cough and could not walk more than ten meters without gasping for air, she said when she arrived at the health center in October last year. The doctor judged it to be a viral illness with a cough and prescribed a cough medicine.
Ivo believes that the woman’s oxygen supply was not normal for a healthy person and that the doctor should have taken a sample from the woman to make sure she did not have a pulmonary embolism. The likelihood of pulmonary embolism, blood clots in the lungs, was low according to the information the doctor had, but the diagnosis could not be ruled out, Ivo believes.
A nurse and the health center itself are also criticized.
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