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A coroner blasted a care home nurse for refusing to attempt resuscitation on a patient.
Instead of attempting CPR on 59-year-old Susan Burgess, nurse Winifred Jozi called the non-emergency NHS Direct service, Kirklees Coroner?s Court heard yesterday.
Mrs Burgess ? a resident of Holme House care home, Cleckheaton ? had no pulse and was not breathing when she was found at around 6.20am on December 5, 2012.
The grandmother, who had dementia brought on prematurely by a head injury sustained in a road accident, was pronounced dead an hour later.
A postmortem found she had died from blood clots in her lungs coupled with pneumonia.
http://www.examiner.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/care-home-nurse-refused-cpr-6727866
Instead of attempting CPR on 59-year-old Susan Burgess, nurse Winifred Jozi called the non-emergency NHS Direct service, Kirklees Coroner?s Court heard yesterday.
Mrs Burgess ? a resident of Holme House care home, Cleckheaton ? had no pulse and was not breathing when she was found at around 6.20am on December 5, 2012.
The grandmother, who had dementia brought on prematurely by a head injury sustained in a road accident, was pronounced dead an hour later.
A postmortem found she had died from blood clots in her lungs coupled with pneumonia.
http://www.examiner.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/care-home-nurse-refused-cpr-6727866