tetano
Editor, Senior Moderator
Madelynne Butcher returned from holiday in Tenerife with a chest infection and was taken to Southampton General Hospital.
Dr Anindo Banerjee, a respiratory consultant, suspected the 18-year-old was suffering from a bacteria-based pneumonia infection and put her on anti-biotics.
Doctors were concerned that, with only limited stocks of swine flu medicine, they should not prescribe the specialist drugs unless they were very confident in their diagnosis, the inquest was told.
It was another 36 hours before tests confirmed the student had contracted the H1N1 virus and she was started on Tamiflu, the inquest at Leicester Town Hall heard.
Today, the hearing was told that although Tamiflu was ineffective in treating patients suffering from severe cases of swine flu in hospital, it did help those less seriously ill.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/h...ed-of-swine-flu-after-being-misdiagnosed.html
Dr Anindo Banerjee, a respiratory consultant, suspected the 18-year-old was suffering from a bacteria-based pneumonia infection and put her on anti-biotics.
Doctors were concerned that, with only limited stocks of swine flu medicine, they should not prescribe the specialist drugs unless they were very confident in their diagnosis, the inquest was told.
It was another 36 hours before tests confirmed the student had contracted the H1N1 virus and she was started on Tamiflu, the inquest at Leicester Town Hall heard.
Today, the hearing was told that although Tamiflu was ineffective in treating patients suffering from severe cases of swine flu in hospital, it did help those less seriously ill.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/h...ed-of-swine-flu-after-being-misdiagnosed.html