Patient death at hospital that had no doctors for four days ‘wholly preventable’: coroner
David Freeman died after experiencing an acute bronchial asthma exacerbation triggered by a non-allergic hypersensitivity reaction to aspirin
A patient has died at a hospital with no doctors after a telehealth GP prescribed aspirin without knowing of his NSAID hypersensitivity, a coroner has found.
David Freeman, 46, died from an acute bronchial asthma exacerbation triggered by a non-allergic hypersensitivity reaction to aspirin at the 18-bed Tenterfield Hospital in northern NSW.
