It was the child’s family who first contacted the emergency room, writes Østlands-Posten. The family was then connected to the AMK central office, which assessed that it was important to provide rapid health care. The ambulance took the child to the emergency room in Larvik, but according to the newspaper, neither the paramedics nor the nurses received information from the child’s medical records. It said that the child was undergoing important treatment, and should not be sent home when visiting the emergency room. Supervision 18 hours after the family was sent home, they called 113. By then the child had suffered a cardiac arrest. During the conversation, the operator gave instructions to give cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and despite this being started, the child died. Now the State Administrator in Vestfold and Telemark will investigate the incident in more detail. The inspection targets both the emergency room in Larvik and the hospital in Vestfold. The role of the Sandefjord ambulance service will also be investigated, because it was there that the family called first. Alerted to the Norwegian Health Authority The Larvik emergency department itself must have notified the Norwegian Health Authority when they were informed of the death, says municipal manager Guro Winsvold to Østlands-Posten. The municipal manager says that the matter is complicated and sad, but that it is good that an inspection should be carried out. The hospital in Vestfold takes the incident seriously, says head of the pre-hospital clinic, Erik Nordberg. – We cooperate well with the State Administrator in this type of matter, and send over all the information we have. Published 25/10/2024, at 10.28
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