Aimee, 2, died in ambulance while clutching her teddy, inquest hears

As two-year-old Aimee Keogh clutched her teddy in an ambulance at University Hospital Limerick to be brought for urgent heart treatment in Dublin, she collapsed and died, an inquest heard.

Aimee, of Glenbrook, Old Singland Road, Limerick, went into cardiac arrest on July 10, 2014, as she was being prepared for transfer to Crumlin Children’s Hospital. Aimee, the youngest of three children, suffered 17 seizures before her admission the previous day, and was being transferred to Dublin for a paediatric cardio echo.

Following a previous admission to University Hospital Limerick in March 2014 with febrile convulsions caused by tonsillitis Aimee had a chest X-ray. On examining the X-ray consultant radiologist Padraig O’Brien said he was suspicious of a septal defect, more commonly known as a hole, between the chambers of the heart. In her evidence paediatric consultant Annemarie Murphy said she found the X-ray to be normal. She said a multidisciplinary team who reviewed the X-ray over three weeks later also found it to be normal.