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EMTs Failed to Help Woman in Pennsylvania
Updated: 07-01-2005 09:37:36 AM
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KATHLEEN BRADY SHEA
Philadelphia Inquirer via Associated Press
An Oxford woman would be alive today if medical personnel had heeded her plea for help, her relatives contend.
Judy Lynn Pomerleau, 45, called 911 at 12:03 a.m. on Feb. 22, 2004, according to county records.
She did not get the assistance she needed, according to a lawsuit filed yesterday in Chester County Court on behalf of the administrators of her estate.
According to the suit, which was prepared by attorney Joseph P. Green Jr., Pomerleau told the operator that she was experiencing respiratory difficulty, that her door was locked, and that she would attempt to unlock it.
However, employees of Southern Chester County Emergency Medical Services Inc. found the door locked, failed to get a response from anyone inside, and left the home about 12:20, the suit says.
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The suit says she apparently "fell on the way from the phone to unlock her front door." The second 911 call was made at 1:37 a.m., according to records.
The suit alleges that the EMTs "certainly should have known that there was a high likelihood the patient was in a compromised medical condition and unable to answer their communications" and that they should have gained forced entry.
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Updated: 07-01-2005 09:37:36 AM
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KATHLEEN BRADY SHEA
Philadelphia Inquirer via Associated Press
An Oxford woman would be alive today if medical personnel had heeded her plea for help, her relatives contend.
Judy Lynn Pomerleau, 45, called 911 at 12:03 a.m. on Feb. 22, 2004, according to county records.
She did not get the assistance she needed, according to a lawsuit filed yesterday in Chester County Court on behalf of the administrators of her estate.
According to the suit, which was prepared by attorney Joseph P. Green Jr., Pomerleau told the operator that she was experiencing respiratory difficulty, that her door was locked, and that she would attempt to unlock it.
However, employees of Southern Chester County Emergency Medical Services Inc. found the door locked, failed to get a response from anyone inside, and left the home about 12:20, the suit says.
<Snip>
The suit says she apparently "fell on the way from the phone to unlock her front door." The second 911 call was made at 1:37 a.m., according to records.
The suit alleges that the EMTs "certainly should have known that there was a high likelihood the patient was in a compromised medical condition and unable to answer their communications" and that they should have gained forced entry.
Firehouse.com for the rest: Clicky