Died after eight hours of waiting for surgery

Region Kalmar County has made a Lex Maria notification of the incident to the Health and Social Care Inspectorate (Ivo), wrote Barometern-OT the other day.

"The patient died, which the long time to operation may have contributed to," it states in the notification submitted to Ivo at the end of December.

We assess, with hindsight, that one should have prioritized differently with knowledge of the situation in this case, says the chief physician at the hospital to Barometern-OT.

Initially, the stomach pains were suspected to be due to stomach ulcers or inflammation of the pancreas. After acute computer tomography, a perforated stomach ulcer was detected, but despite this, the operation was delayed by eight hours.

We know that it is important to take care of these patients promptly, says the chief physician.