Man was not told of alert regarding pacemaker

AN inquest into the death of a man whose defective pacemaker failed on a flight to France heard a warning had been issued by the manufacturer four months earlier, but the hospital failed to inform him.

James Kinsella, aged 74, of Grove Heights, Seamount, Cortown, Co Wexford, suffered a cardiac arrest when his pacemaker stopped working on a flight from Dublin to Beauvais on September 17, 2009.

The flight was diverted back to Dublin and Mr Kinsella, who was travelling to Paris with his wife Mary Patricia to visit their son, was rushed to Beaumont Hospital, Dublin.