Reported by Dublin Live yesterday, a Cork mother was left facing every parent’s nightmare when her child began to choke on pringles during an Aer Lingus flight to Turkey.
Lisa Murray was bringing her child Miley Rose Spillane on her first every holiday to Izmir when the frightening incident occurred.
A woman who lived in sheltered accommodation in Bognor Regis died after choking on a piece of ham, an inquest heard.
Marie Hopkins, 85, died at home at the Stanley Court sheltered accommodation in Montgomery Drive, Bognor Regis earlier this year.
Oxford based St Luke’s Hospital have fitted new Airway Clearance Devices to their Latimer Road site as the charity extends patient services.
St Luke’s provides adult post-operative rehabilitation, nursing, palliative and respite care, close to the centre of Oxford. In addition to providing on-site GP services, the registered charity is close to completing their new 20 bed extension which will see resident and patient services.
A 60-year-old man died at a care home after a ‘period of choking’, an inquest has heard.
John Shreeve lived at Ivydene Residential Home in Station Road, Ormesby St Margaret, near Great Yarmouth, where he died on March 31 this year.
An inquest opened at Norfolk Coroner’s Court on Monday.
A care home nurse described how he tried to save the life of a choking pensioner at her care home in Bourne.
Joan George, 73, died in the late evening on the 28th September 2016, at Abbey Court Care Home in Bourne after she choked on a sandwich, an inquest heard on Monday 25th March.
A CARE home resident who was described as a “wonderful character” died after choking on a large piece of meat, an inquest heard.
Geoffrey Hull was a resident at Gracewell of Salisbury, Shapland Close, Wilton Road, at the time of his death on 29th November last year.
A 96-year-old woman suffering from dementia died after choking on food, an inquest opening has heard.
Florence Wright died at Woodside house care home in Norwich, where she lived, on the 27th February.
A police force is training staff on the risks of choking after a coroner hit out at the “complete lack of knowledge” shown in an arrest in which a man died.
Drug dealer Karl Brunner, 48, swallowed heroin as he was being detained in Bedford in 2016, and died in hospital.
