Doctors missed patient’s MI after attributing symptoms to exercise bike mishap: coroner
Sheila Quairney's death highlights the importance of fully assessing women with atypical symptoms, coroner Audrey Jamieson concluded.
Doctors missed an AMI diagnosis because they assumed a woman’s abdominal and ribcage pain was related to a fall onto her stationary bike handles, a coroner has found.
The case should be used as a reminder to doctors to undertake a comprehensive assessment and consider acute coronary syndrome (ACS) in female patients who present “atypically”, according to Victorian coronial findings.
