Communication failures blamed for patient’s adrenal crisis death
An inquest found that the patient should have been administered emergency hydrocortisone
The death of a man from sepsis during an adrenal crisis has been partly blamed on a communication breakdown between his GP and an endocrinologist over the need for emergency hydrocortisone.
Francis Stewart had originally been diagnosed with hypopituitarism, a result of the radiation therapy he had undergone for a medulloblastoma at the age of two.
