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SA: Wrong blood transfusion hastened woman's death: coroner
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AAP General News (Australia)
01-18-2005
SA: Wrong blood transfusion hastened woman's death: coroner
By Lauren Ahwan
ADELAIDE, Jan 18 AAP - A nurse failed to follow checking procedures leading to the
wrong blood type being given to an elderly woman who later died, the South Australian
coroner said today.
Coroner Wayne Chivell found the registered nurse administering a blood transfusion
given to 90-year-old Dorothy Alberta Squires did not follow hospital protocol to ensure
she was given the right blood type.
The wrong transfusion hastened her death at Adelaide's Flinders Private Hospital ...
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