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A police officer who collapsed in a hospital toilet while in labour with twins died of natural causes, a coroner has ruled. | A police officer who collapsed in a hospital toilet while in labour with twins died of natural causes, a coroner has ruled. |
Pc Sarah Underhill, 37, died on 5 October last year at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, after amniotic fluid from the womb entered her blood stream. | Pc Sarah Underhill, 37, died on 5 October last year at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, after amniotic fluid from the womb entered her blood stream. |
Pathologist Sebastian Lucas said her condition was "unpreventable". | Pathologist Sebastian Lucas said her condition was "unpreventable". |
Mrs Underhill's husband Richard had said that doctors should have performed a Caesarean section sooner. | Mrs Underhill's husband Richard had said that doctors should have performed a Caesarean section sooner. |
In summing up the case, Oxfordshire Coroner Nicholas Gardiner said: "The twins were successfully delivered but sadly [Mrs Underhill] went into a cardiac arrest from which she could not be retrieved." | |
In a statement, Mrs Underhill's husband Richard thanked the coroner as well as staff at the John Radcliffe Hospital. | |
He described his wife as "a devoted daughter, caring sister and beautiful wife. | |
"It is truly heartbreaking that she will not go on to become the wonderful mother she would have been," he said. "She will be sadly missed." | |
Mr Underhill, 39, now cares for six-month-old twins Hannah and James at their home in Didcot, Oxfordshire. |