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#wathupondearne Latest news in Yorkshire: September 13, 2018 11:10:08 AM
The death of a student four days after she started university was
accidental, a coroner has ruled.
Abigail Hall died aged 18 in Sheffield Hallam University’s Trigon student
halls on 23 September 2015.
Doctors told the inquest reasons for Ms Hall’s “incredibly tragic” death
were “unexplained and unclear”.
Coroner David Urpeth concluded Ms Hall’s death was accidental and said her
sickness for several days prior was caused by a virus.
Ms Hall, from Doncaster, had suffered stomach pains and vomiting in the
run-up to her death.
The day before she died her parents took her to an NHS walk-in centre where
GP Dr Thomas Pollack prescribed Buscopan to reduce stomach cramps.
A post-mortem revealed Ms Hall died from aspiration pneumonitis, when
foreign bodies enter the lungs. A secondary cause was gastro-enteritis.
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Consultant gastroenterologists Ashraf Soliman and Mark Donnelly agreed the
death was “extremely rare and unpredictable” for such a young and otherwise
healthy person.
Evidence had previously centred around whether or not Ms Hall had described
her vomit to Dr Pollack as having “coffee-ground granules” in it, indicative
of internal bleeding.
However, the gastroenterologists agreed even if she had been referred to
hospital it was “likely” she would have been classed as “low risk” and
discharged.
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