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Tue 02 Feb 2010Medical inquiry told of delay in treating septic shock
THERE WAS undoubtedly delay in diagnosing and treating a woman who developed septic shock after a procedure at the Galway Clinic in 2005, a Medical Council fitness to practise inquiry was told yesterday.
Dr Peter Boylan, a consultant obstetrician and former master of the National Maternity Hospital, said if Saundra O’Connor (39), from Claregalway, Co Galway, was given antibiotics earlier it would probably have made a “substantial difference”.
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