Strasbourg University Hospitals. An internal investigation opened after the death of a patient in the emergency room

An internal administrative investigation has been opened at the University Hospitals of Strasbourg (HUS), as announced on Thursday Rue89 Strasbourg , after the death of a patient in the emergency room of the New Civil Hospital (NHC), Thursday, March 17. He had spent more than ten hours in the emergency room, “without being able to benefit from appropriate monitoring and care due to the degraded working conditions”, according to one of the emergency doctors in the service. Less than an hour after his death, a “serious adverse event” note was written by service personnel. “Because it is a death that was not expected,” says an emergency physician. Still according to him, this patient arrived at the emergency room for a digestive haemorrhage, without any sign of concern. “But you never know, it’s complicated, because a haemorrhage…

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