A recent inspection by the State Administrator in Vestland states that the patient did not receive appropriate health care from Helse Bergen. They write that in a press release. In August 2023, the hospital notified of a serious incident, where a patient who needed urgent health care did not receive the necessary treatment. The patient was not operated on and died. – Serious and unwanted incident, writes the Statsforvalteren. The state administrator has concluded that low intensive care capacity prevented vital treatment at Haukeland University Hospital. The state administrator opened supervisory proceedings with the hospital. They believe that the hospital’s staffing on this day involved too high a risk of failure. In a meeting in September 2023, it emerged that insufficient capacity in the intensive care unit occurred frequently at the hospital. In addition, there has been a persistent and long-term problem with a lack of intensive care capacity, according to the State Administrator. Unclear communication In August, the air ambulance landed at the hospital with the critically ill patient. The 24 hours in question were characterized by several serious cases of illness and accidents, according to the State Administrator. This meant that there were not enough resources available for monitoring and/or intensive care after the operation. This lack of resources was not communicated well enough outside the hospital, or to the surgeons on duty, writes the State Administrator. – The patient in the relevant case was elderly and seriously ill, and it is not certain that an operation would have prevented the death. But it emerged in the case management that the patient would have been tried for surgery if there had been enough resources available for the entire process. According to the inspection, the surgeons were not aware that the hospital had such little capacity when they first accepted to accept the patient.
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Patient at Haukeland University Hospital died due to burst intensive care capacity – news Vestland
