Access block highlighted in patient’s death from ruptured aortic aneurysm
Neville Mills may have survived if he hadn’t left a swamped Melbourne ED, coroner finds
A coroner has blamed access block in a Victorian hospital for the potentially preventable death of a patient who died from a ruptured aortic aneurysm.
Neville Mills, 66, left the Sunshine Hospital ED in Melbourne’s west without being seen, more than six hours after arriving by ambulance with lower left abdominal pain in July 2021.
