{"id":958,"date":"2017-02-01T09:45:29","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T09:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/?p=958"},"modified":"2021-08-24T16:31:08","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T15:31:08","slug":"missed-signs-of-sepsis-led-to-death-of-18-year-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/missed-signs-of-sepsis-led-to-death-of-18-year-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Missed signs of sepsis led to death of 18-year-old"},"content":{"rendered":"

There has been widespread reporting of the shocking death of Eleanor Penrose, a young triathlete, who had just been offered a place at York University to study Maths.<\/p>\n

Miss Penrose attended A&E at Hull Royal Infirmary early in the morning of August 13th<\/sup> 2015, suffering from diarrhoea and a headache. She was diagnosed with a stomach bug and sent home by a junior doctor.<\/p>\n

Within hours, she returned to A&E showing signs of sepsis but was not given antibiotics for two hours by which time it was too late. She died later that day of sepsis caused by a meningococcal infection.<\/p>\n

The coroner, Paul Marks, commented that, whilst it was not unreasonable for Eleanor to have been sent home after her initial visit to A&E, the failure to administer antibiotics immediately upon her return may have contributed to her subsequent death.<\/p>\n

Sepsis is a life-threatening condition, triggered by another infection in the body, which causes the immune system to over-react, frequently leading to inflammation and swelling across the body. Ultimately, it can lead to septic shock and death.<\/p>\n

When signs of sepsis are observed \u2013 a high temperature, fast heartbeat, fast breathing and chills – the patient needs to be treated immediately with antibiotics to prevent the condition from deteriorating.<\/p>\n

Speak to a solicitor<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you feel you may have been the victim of negligent medical care, please contact us at Glynns Solicitors.<\/p>\n

Please call us on 0800 234 3300<\/a> (or from a mobile 01275 334030<\/strong><\/a>) or complete our Online Enquiry Form<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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There has been widespread reporting of the shocking death of Eleanor Penrose, a young triathlete, who had just been offered a place at York University to study Maths. Miss Penrose attended A&E at Hull Royal Infirmary early in the morning of August 13th 2015, suffering from diarrhoea and a headache. She was diagnosed with a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[1572],"class_list":["post-958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accident-and-emergency","tag-accident-emergency-medical-negligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958","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=958"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":996,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions\/996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}