A three-year-old girl died three months after being sent home from A&E because doctors “missed opportunities” to find out she had a rare illness.Ryleigh Hillcoat-Bee was taken to the hospital when she got sick while on vacation with her family in North Wales.The signs and symptoms point to a serious muscle problem. and rhabdomyolysis. Even so, Ryleigh was sent home from the hospital.
After three months, her parents Caroline and Andrew rushed her back to A&E because she was having trouble breathing. At Blackpool Victoria Hospital, she had a heart attack and died on Monday, November 8, 2021.Alan Wilson, the area coroner for Blackpool, said at an inquest last week that there had been several “missed opportunities” to look into Ryleigh’s inability to move around before she was released in August. Speaking for Ryleigh’s parents As a medical negligence lawyer named Diane Rostron put it, “the hospital was given clear advice from colleagues in Leeds during Ryleigh’s admission in August 2021 to get specialist advice from a neuromuscular specialist.” “If they had done that, they would have been able to diagnose rhabdomyolysis and get advice on how to treat a flare-up.” After finding out what was wrong with Ryleigh, the hospital would have given this information to her parents while they looked into what was really wrong.
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