A patient died in the Salzburg University Hospital on Thursday evening. The Salzburger (50) had been hospitalized due to a previous illness. The patient died in the lung medicine sleep lab.
As the hospital announced on Friday, the 50-year-old man from the center of Salzburg had been referred to hospital by a specialist because of a previous illness and the associated high health risk. The death occurred there during the diagnostic clarification.
Self-disclosure reimbursed
Quality, risk and ethics management took over the business within the university hospital. In addition, self-declaration was routinely made to the Salzburg public prosecutor’s office. “We will also collect internally all the circumstances leading to this death and fully support the authorities in clarifying the matter,” emphasized Paul Sungler, director of the Salzburg State Clinics. Condolences to the patient’s family.
In sleep laboratories, patients’ sleep is monitored, examined and analyzed at night. For example, breathing parameters or oxygen saturation in the blood are measured to determine if breathing is too slow or if breathing stops.
Source: Krone
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