Michelle Whitehead was being treated in a mental health ward
The family of Nottinghamshire mother Michelle Whitehead have expressed how they will miss and "love her forever" after an inquest highlighted serious mistakes and failings before her death. In the hours before she died, Mrs Whitehead, aged 45, was given a lower dose of diazepam than required, drank water excessively, and her consciousness level was not assessed at any time after she was given lorazepam.
A shocking catalogue of errors was flagged as a jury returned their findings over the death of Mrs Whitehead, who sustained an unsurvivable brain injury on May 5, 2021.The inquest was told that the cause of the brain injury was "on the balance of probability" because of an "acute over-hydration of water, leading to severely low sodium levels, causing swelling in the brain".
One single observation was made by the staff nurse in charge of Mrs Whitehead's excessive consumption of water at 3.48pm on May 5, 2021 - and the inquest heard Mrs Whitehead had unsupervised access to water in her room. An ambulance took Mrs Whitehead to King's Mill Hospital where she was placed in the intensive care unit and died. At the inquest conclusion a statement was issued to Nottinghamshire Live from her husband, Michael Whitehead, and his family, which reads: "Michelle’s family are grateful to the coroner and her team as well as our legal council, Thomas Herbert, Amelia Sutcliffe and Anna McLeod.
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