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Hospital patient died after choking incident

Posted on 5 November 20205 November 2020 by Dechoker UK

Despite being regarded as at risk of aspiration, a frail and elderly main died after a choking incident. HM Assistant Coroner Graeme Irvine heard at the inquest into the death

Mr Boardman was an elderly and frail man who experienced a decline in his health in late 2019. After being mistakenly sent home by the Royal London Hospital the patient was readmitted shortly before Christmas.
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‘I saw her turn blue’: Carer praised for saving pensioner from choking to death on a slice of toast

Posted on 2 November 2019 by developer

Carer Buki Krasniqi has been hailed a “superhero” after saving the life of a Hampstead pensioner who almost choked to death on a slice of toast, reports the Ham&High

Buki, 50, was making 92 year-old Eunice Waller her second cup of tea of the morning when the older woman began to choke. “When I was making the cup of tea, I heard her struggling. Then I saw her. Her face was completely blue,” she told the Ham&High.

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Posted in NewsTagged Choking, Hampstead, life saved, London