The hearing heard that Leona Cusack was five weeks pregnant following IVF treatment when she initially presented at University Maternity Hospital Limerick on February 15th last year.
A woman who was flagged at two Limerick hospitals for “sepsis”, but who was not given the prescribed medication in time, died from cardiac respiratory failure, a day after suffering a miscarriage, her inquest heard Thursday.
Leona Cusack (33), of Balycasey, Co Clare, might have survived if she had received a “broad spectrum” of antibiotics. She died on February 18th, 2024.
However, it was agreed that, due to a “breach” in HSE sepsis protocols, while Ms Cusack was a patient at University Hospital Limerick, she was ini
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