Inquest hears of 'many missed opportunities' to diagnose young mother's fatal infection
The inquest heard that Karen McEvoy (pictured) suffered a cardiac arrest as emergency staff were trying to fit an intravenous line into her at Naas General Hospital.
An inquest into the death of a young mother who died a week after she gave birth to her third child at a maternity hospital in Dublin heard claims there were “many missed opportunities” to diagnose that she had contracted a life-threatening infection.
Karen McEvoy, 24, of Red Bog, Blessington, Co Wicklow, was rushed to Naas General Hospital with suspected sepsis on Christmas Day 2018 – seven days after her daughter, Ruby, had been born at the Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital – but died a short time later after suffering a cardiac arrest in the hospital’s emergency department.
