Baby died of neglect after staff turned off emergency alarm, coroner rules
by Rebecca Thomas
Dec 21, 2023
3 minutes
Hospital neglect contributed to the death of a two-month-old baby after staff turned off emergency alarms, a coroner has ruled.
Louella Sheridan died from Covid and a related heart condition at Royal Bolton Hospital on 24 April 2022, after she was admitted with bronchiolitis to the intensive care unit.
Four alarms on a monitoring machine were silenced and then switched off before the baby collapsed on a high-dependency unit, it has been found.
On Wednesday, coroner John Pollard ruled that
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