Cancer patient died after CT scan results were left on doctor’s desk for six days

The outcomes weren't seen by his marketing consultant till it was too late (Image: Wales Information Service/PA)

A pensioner died after scan outcomes displaying he had a life-threatening blood clot have been left on a desk for six days, an inquest heard.

Trevor Reynolds, a retired HGV driver from north Wales, died on Might 15 final yr.

The 79-year-old had a scan on the hospital on Might 3 – a Financial institution Vacation Monday – to verify the development of his most cancers of the oesophagus.

It revealed by the way that he had a blood clot which required pressing care – and a radiologist mentioned it wanted to be delivered to the eye of his docs instantly.

However on Might 6, the outcomes have been positioned on the desk of a marketing consultant who was out of the workplace, and it was not acted on.

In the meantime, Mr Reynolds was discovering respiratory and consuming tough and on Might 10, he was visited at his house by a GP and was taken to hospital instantly.

The blood clot was then recognized and he obtained remedy, however Mr Reynolds, of Abergele, north Wales, handed away 5 days later at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd in Bodelwyddan.

An inquest discovered that if he had obtained remedy for the blood clot earlier, he would have been ‘probably’ to reside longer.

Retired lorry driver Trevor Reynolds had the scan to verify the event of his most cancers (Image: Wales Information Service)

An aerial view of Glan Clwyd Hospital in north Wales (Image: PA)

Dr Angel Garcia Alonso was out of the workplace when the outcomes have been positioned on his desk (Image: Wales Information Service)

Medical oncologist Dr Angel Garcia Olonso, whose desk the scan outcomes had been positioned on, returned to work on Might 12 by which era Mr Reynolds had already been admitted.

He had labored in Wrexham for at some point earlier than the weekend and was on annual go away the next Monday and Tuesday.

He appeared as a witness at Ruthin County Corridor at present yesterday and advised the inquest Mr Reynolds’ possibilities of survival would have been greater had he seen the report sooner.

John Gittins, senior coroner for North Wales east and central, mentioned he was ‘dumbfounded’ that it had taken till December 2021 for adjustments to be made in relation to how surprising findings are seen instantly by clinicians.

An audit of the effectiveness of the adjustments made has but to be accomplished, the inquest heard.

A autopsy examination was undertaken by Dr Mark Atkinson who supplied a reason for loss of life of pneumonia and pulmonary embolism because of deep-vein thrombosis on the background of emphysema and most cancers of the oesophagus.

The coroner recorded a story conclusion and issued a Prevention of Future Deaths report.

Mr Gittins mentioned: ‘The proof indicated that had remedy for the clot started sooner there would have been a greater prospect of it being profitable and additional that the remedy of his most cancers had been efficient.

‘On the stability of chances subsequently it's probably that Mr Reynolds wouldn't have died on the fifteenth of Might 2021 if the results of his scan had been acted upon when reported by the radiologist on the sixth of Might.’

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