<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica, Verdana">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by maleigha:
My daughter had heart surgery when she was 10 days old. She became a rapid breather after the surgery. When she was 8 weeks old i took her to the emergency room because she was breathing really slowing. She was gasping for air. When i came into the emergency room i told the lady at the front desk, that my child had heart surgery and she wasn't breathing. They would not look at her and kept trying to register her in. It took almost 10 minutes to get a dr. to look at her and by that time she had stopped breathing. My daughter died while waiting on someone to see her.I yelled repeatedly that she had heart surgery and she wasn't breathing. My question is if a child comes in who is barely breathing, aren't they suppose to bring them right back? <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
I am sorry to hear of your loss. Since your case was really an emergency, the registration desk person should have immediately paged the attending ER physician with a STAT code. The hospital ER procedures need to be looked into as it appears that proper procedures were not followed. The proper procedure is to give a patient immediate assistance first (in a life threatening situation) and get the required paperwork filled out later. Even if the ER personnel had to work out in the parking lot. The question now is to determine if a Dr. had seen your child earlier could her life have been saved? Look at the death certificate and the hospital medical records as to the cause of death. If the records show DOA you must refute this in order to preserve your possible malpractice claim. If you are going to pursue a claim you need to hire an attorney right away.
