Australian Christina Lackmann died in April 2021 in her apartment in Melbourne after overdose caffeine. She waited for more than seven hours to help, while the pathologist Catherine Fitzgerald described the delay as unacceptable and stated that Christina could survive in timely care.
Christina Lackmann called on the emergency line after She felt malaise, dazed, her body controlled numbness and could not get up from the ground. She died alone in the bathroom. In her investigation, Koronerka stated that there were errors in processing her emergency call – for example, she was not linked to a healthcare professional to further assessment. Her condition was classified as a non -haired and unaccountable, which meant that it was advanced to the so -called. Secondary clinical sorting.
During the call Christina Lackmann did not indicate that she had eaten caffeine tablets, Even what caused her symptoms. They asked her to keep the line free, so that they could contact her. The ambulance rescue service Victoria tried to contact her fourteen times by phone and once sent a text message – without success.
After about an hour, the priority of her case was increased to increase the chances of sending an ambulance. However, the two ambulances that sent to her were dismissed to more urgent cases. The rescuers eventually got to her apartment in Caulfield North shortly before 3 am, seven hours and eleven minutes after her first call. But the woman was no longer help.
Toxicological analysis showed that It had a very high and potentially fatal concentration of caffeine in the blood and stomach content. Expert on clinical and forensic toxicology, associate professor of Narendra Gunja said that Overdose with caffeine may be fatal within 8 hours after ingestion. He added that if she were hospitalized after her call, her doctors would probably ask her what she had taken and could be treated correspondingly.
“In all likelihood, she would survive the overdose,” He said Gunja, but at the same time noted that it could not be accurately determined when and how much caffeine the woman was consumed, and therefore not exactly to say when she could have been saved.
