A jury made three final recommendations in the coroner's inquest into the death of Darrell Mesheau, who died in the Fredericton hospital ER waiting room.
Ryan Mesheau believes his father was dead for about 40 minutes before anyone at the Dr. Everett Chalmers Regional Hospital emergency department realized.
A two-day coroner’s inquest was held into Mesheau’s death and a jury of five people heard from 11 witnesses.Mesheau called an ambulance at 8:56 p.m. on July 11. He was transported to hospital with what paramedic Ashley Guptill said were normal oxygen and glucose levels. A video played for the jury shows Mesheau slumped in a wheelchair from 4 a.m. until about 4:31 a.m. when he is finally wheeled into the emergency department.Liberals launching $500M fund for youth mental healthCommunity coroner Peter Kiervin testified no one physically interacted with Mesheau from 2:03 a.m. until around 4:28 a.m., which was supported by video surveillance, and contradicted earlier testimony by Knowles that she’d checked on him around 3:40 a.m.
“There is nothing further that can be done if the heart is stopped,” he said in the video. “Efforts are futile. You are torturing the individual unnecessarily.”Registered nurse Danielle Othen said she was working alone in triage the night Mesheau was brought into the ER. She describes being short-staffed the whole weekend.
There were 52 patients in the ER on the night in question. There were only two beds available in the acute care section of the ER, none in ambulatory and one in the intensive care unit.As well, there were no available beds in other units, like cardiac care, medical or surgery, which a HHN official later testified was also taking on three additional patients each.At 11:55 p.m. on July, there were 14 patients at CTAS level 2, 21 patients CTAS level 3.
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