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| Sean Turner inquest: 'Missed opportunities' in care | Sean Turner inquest: 'Missed opportunities' in care |
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| A children's hospital where a four-year-old boy died after heart surgery "missed opportunities", an inquest has concluded. | |
| However coroner Maria Voisin said Bristol Children's Hospital did not fail Sean Turner with its basic care. | |
| She recorded a narrative verdict ruling that Sean died from a cerebral haemorrhage, thrombosis and a congenital heart defect. | |
| Parents Steve and Yolanda said they now have to "try and rebuild" their lives. | |
| The vital corrective surgery took place six weeks before Sean died in March 2012. | |
| Ms Voisin said she had not heard evidence during the inquest of any "gross failures to provide basic care" in the treatment Sean received on Ward 32 of the hospital. | Ms Voisin said she had not heard evidence during the inquest of any "gross failures to provide basic care" in the treatment Sean received on Ward 32 of the hospital. |
| She added she would not be writing a prevention of future deaths (PFD) report to the trust. | She added she would not be writing a prevention of future deaths (PFD) report to the trust. |
| 'Desperate situation' | |
| During the hearing, the court was told the ward had staffing problems and did not have a high-dependency unit at the time of Sean's death. | During the hearing, the court was told the ward had staffing problems and did not have a high-dependency unit at the time of Sean's death. |
| The coroner heard how Sean developed a blood clot and was given a clot-busting drug, which can cause bleeding, and it was this that caused the fatal bleed in his brain. | |
| His parents, Steve and Yolanda Turner, aged 47 and 45, told the inquest how they begged doctors and nurses to help him. | |
| They accused the nursing staff of moving Sean off intensive care too soon and said signs of his worsening condition - rising blood pressure, vomiting and fluid loss from his chest - were missed. | |
| Following the verdict, the parents' solicitor read a statement on their behalf saying: "There were many missed opportunities to rescue Sean from his desperate situation. | |
| "We now have to try and rebuild our lives without our little boy." |