{"id":585,"date":"2015-09-25T08:30:57","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T07:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/?p=585"},"modified":"2021-07-13T11:50:55","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T10:50:55","slug":"boy-left-brain-damaged-after-mothers-advice-ignored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/boy-left-brain-damaged-after-mothers-advice-ignored\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy Left Brain Damaged After Mother\u2019s Advice Ignored"},"content":{"rendered":"

An 11 year old boy has been left severely brain damaged after Great Ormond Street Hospital ordered a blood thinning injection, despite his mother warning that it would damage his vital organs.<\/span><\/p>\n

Gabrielle Ali, a medical scientist, took her son Elijah to the leading children\u2019s hospital in March 2014 for a routine dental operation. <\/span><\/p>\n

He was born with a cleft palate and congenital heart defects, for which he commonly used the blood-thinning agent warfarin to reduce the chance of clots.<\/span><\/p>\n

Because of this he bled heavily after the procedure, but was discharged shortly afterwards. <\/span><\/p>\n

Elijah continued to be unwell, but only when he returned to Great Ormond Street for a second time was a blood test carried out.<\/span><\/p>\n

This showed that Elijah had extremely low levels of haemoglobin, but as there were no beds available he was sent to Watford A&E. <\/span><\/p>\n

There doctors planned to carry out a blood transfusion the following day, but were first ordered to infuse a dose of heparin. <\/span><\/p>\n

Because of her scientific background, Elijah\u2019s mother knew this was not safe with a low haemoglobin level. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI tried my best to fight them, but they didn\u2019t listen\u201d<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

She warned doctors not to administer the medication, but was told they were acting under instructions from Great Ormond Street Hospital.<\/span><\/p>\n

Miss Ali telephoned the children\u2019s hospital and tried to convince them of the risks, but to no avail.<\/span><\/p>\n

Within seconds of the heparin being injected, Elijah went into cardiac arrest. <\/span><\/p>\n

It took 45 minutes to resuscitate him. His brain was so starved of oxygen that he has been left permanently brain damaged and can no longer walk or talk.<\/span><\/p>\n

Miss Ali said: \u201cFrom my scientific knowledge I knew it wasn\u2019t safe to given heparin to my son as his haemoglobin \u2013 red blood cell level \u2013 was so low.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI was really anxious that heparin would thin the blood around Elijah\u2019s body too much and put his vital organs at risk.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI argued with doctors at Watford General Hospital\u2026but they said they were acting on instructions of Great Ormond Street. They threatened legal action if I tried to remove him from the hospital.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt was torture, knowing what would happen if Elijah was given heparin but being unable to stop it. I tried my best to fight them, but they didn\u2019t listen.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Great Ormond Street Hospital has launched an investigation.<\/span><\/p>\n

Expert legal advice<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

If you would like to talk to a lawyer about suing a hospital for medical negligence, please get in touch with us at Glynns Solicitors. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An 11 year old boy has been left severely brain damaged after Great Ormond Street Hospital ordered a blood thinning injection, despite his mother warning that it would damage his vital organs. Gabrielle Ali, a medical scientist, took her son Elijah to the leading children\u2019s hospital in March 2014 for a routine dental operation. He […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,15],"tags":[619,161,436,620,621],"class_list":["post-585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accident-and-emergency","category-hospital-negligence","tag-brain-damage-claim","tag-great-ormond-street-hospital","tag-hospital-blunders","tag-hospital-brain-damage","tag-suing-hospital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1721,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions\/1721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}