'Serious omissions' were made in the care of a 'healthy' Nottinghamshire mum in the lead up to her death in hospital, an inquest has found. Jodie McCann, mum to four-year-old Freddie, had just enrolled to start training as a nurse when she was admitted to King's Mill Hospital, Sutton-in-Ashfield, in March with acute pancreatitis.
She died aged 22, after a breathing tube became dislodged during her care at Queen’s Hospital in Burton-upon-Trent. The student nurse, of Newark, Nottinghamshire, had been admitted to the hospital's intensive care unit from King's Mill on March 22 last year after suffering a cardiac arrest while undergoing treatment for gallstone pancreatitis.
Leading the inquest at Nottingham Council House, Dr Elizabeth Didcock told the hearing: "She remained critically ill, but she was improving." It was a 'reasonable decision', Dr Didcock told the hearing, to extubate Ms McCann on March 28. Extubation is the process of taking out a tube that helps one breathe.
