the Woman was enrolled in inpatient care on a psykiatriklinik in the northwest of Stockholm in the summer of 2017, when she gradually got increasingly into trouble with headaches, nausea, and loose stools. The woman was posted for increasing depressive complaints, but at the same time had multiple somatic problems.
Among other things, treated her for diabetes type 2, according to the news agency Siren with reference to a decision from the Inspectorate for health and social care, Ivo, 19 december.
increasing towards the end of the approximately two weeks the woman was a patient at the clinic, she complained and expressed that she needed to care for their physical problems. The responsible physician assessed at the time that this is not needed.
”Then the patient was not allmänpåverkad or showed signs of serious physical illness is considered not justified medicinkonsultation in the department”, in Ivo’s decision. The reason for the discomfort was adopted instead be side effects of the medication that the patient received on the ward, and would probably soon go over.
On 8 June 2017, wrote the patient itself out for on their own to seek care elsewhere. The responsible physician noted that the woman had written himself voluntarily and that there were no grounds for conversion of the health care system under the law on psychiatric forced treatment, LPT.
the Same day searched the patient care at the Danderyd hospital and was placed on the infection clinic. The next day passed away the woman. The reason was likely vattenförgiftning, writes the news agency Siren.
Vattenförgiftning is a condition that can lead to edema formation in the internal organs, including the brain. One of the symptoms are headaches, and among those patients who are at risk are people with diabetes.
towards the Psychiatry in the north west for how it has handled the matter. The formal position is that ”the medical treatment of the patient’s physical condition was poor” and notes that ”a physical examination had been adequate action on the basis of the patient’s composite state”.
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