Dear Sir,
I wish to make a complaint about the treatment that I have received at Royal Shrewsbury Hospital on 30th April 2005
On the 8th February 2007 I was rushed to the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital with an ectopic pregnancy, This caused my fallopian tube to rupture and I needed Laproscopic surgery, but it was not possible to save either the fallopian tube or the pregnancy.
The next day I had terrible pains in my shoulder and chest which were initially dismissed as gas from the surgery, however I had a drain attached which was showing a significant loss of blood and my HB levels were dropping quite rapidly. I began to feel worse and worse until it was decided that I needed an exploratory operation to find the cause of these problems.
When I woke up following this operation the surgeon told me that my bladder had been accidentally cut during the previous surgery. This was because my bladder had not been put back in the correct position during my emergency caesarean section on the 30th April 2007.
The caesarean was carried out at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital following several failed induction attempts. At 5? 1? and a size 6 I was aware that I was carrying a large baby and was informed by a midwife at The Princess Royal Hospital on the 26th April 2007 when I was referred with Pre-eclampsia that a scan would be advisable since my son had tried and failed to engage. However at RSH I was told that this would not be necessary. I was given 3 doses of prostaglandin gel, at this point my waters were artificially ruptured. Unfortunately they were green in colour. I was then hooked up to a syntocinon drip.
After some time both I and my baby were very distressed, so my husband tried to find a registrar or doctor to assess our wellbeing. It was decided that a caesarean section would be the best course of action. I remember during the operation itself it taking three members of staff to dislodge my sons head from my pelvis, the back of his head was very badly bruised. My placenta was incomplete and had traces of Group B Strepptacoccus on it (an infection which can spread to the uterus through prolonged contractions). I was seriously ill afterwards, this was put down to the effects of the Group B Strep and I had been readmitted into hospital several times during the first few months of my sons life with severe stomach pains and recurrent infections. All of which contributed directly to the development of severe Post Natal Depression for which I am still receiving counselling weekly.
My general health has since been very poor and I have endured at least 3 early miscarriages not including the above mentioned Ectopic Pregnancy. I have been informed that my chances of conceiving and carrying to term again naturally are very slim and that we are not eligible for NHS funding thru IVF cycles because we already have one child. I am very unhappy about this. I feel that the doctors were negligent in their treatment of me during the delivery of my son and I would like an explanation of the following issues
? Why was my Bladder Cut?
? Why did my caesarean go so wrong?
? Is this possibly the reason behind my recurrent miscarriages and why I have been unable to have another baby?
? Why were the Group B Strep cultures not found when I had vaginal swabs taken at around 20 weeks?
? Why was my bladder incorrectly positioned?
? Why was this not found sooner?
? What actions you propose to take in order to prevent this happening again?
I look forward to hearing from you
Yours faithfully