OAP died after hospital fall
Published 8 May 2010 12:00
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A PENSIONER died accidentally when she fell from her bed in hospital an inquest heard.
Iris D'Silva, 95, was rehabilitating at Upton Hospital, Slough, from a previous fall when she climbed out of bed trying to use the toilet at her bedside, hitting her head and causing bleeding on the brain.
A nurse heard the fall at 6.35am on December 6, 2009 and rushed to help Ms D'Silva, who showed no obvious signs of injury except a small bruise on her forehead. The on-call doctor was summoned and advised to keep observing her but to transfer her to Wexham Park Hospital if her conditioned worsened.
Later that day she was transferred and a head scan was taken, which showed a severe subdural haemorrhage. The film was sent to neurosurgeons at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford for a prognosis on operating, but the surgeons felt that there was 'no intervention because a poor outcome was very likely'.
The family was informed and Ms D'Silva died two days later.
In his summing up, Berkshire Coroner Peter Bedford said: "I can be sure that because the cause of death was subdural haemorrhage and that is associated with the trauma of a fall and because falls are accidents, that this was an accident."
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