First-time mother cradles the newborn son that she will never see grow up in a tender snap taken just two days before her sudden and unexplained death in hospital
Mum cradles the newborn son she will never see grow up in snap taken two days before her sudden death in hospital
CLUTCHING her newborn son in a loving embrace, mum Lisa Parkisson shares a precious moment with her first child before tragedy strikes.
For, just two days after giving birth, the 35-year-old died suddenly and without explanation in her hospital bed.
And now a preliminary inquest hearing into the the 2014 tragedy at Royal Oldham Hospital has heard that Lisa was killed by Sudden Adult Death Syndrome.
Senior doctors said nothing could have been done to prevent the death.
Lisa gave birth to Zac following a caesarean section in June 2014.
Her overjoyed family had left for the evening, expecting to see her the next day.
But they were left devastated to receive a phone call the following morning saying she had been found unresponsive in her bed.
And they say they still have questions.
Her dad Robert Parkisson said: “I walked into the room and there were about eight people all around on her.
“One of them was giving her CPR. I’ve seen it on the telly before, but it was nothing like this.
“I had never seen anything like that in my life. I could not watch it any more. I couldn’t watch them do that to my little girl.
“My other daughter met me in the corridor and I said to her, she’s gone.”
The family said they had concerns about the length of time Lisa, who had worked in the travel industry, had been left in bed without observations.
Lisa’s medical records show she had been administered painkillers at 4.05am after complaining of rib and shoulder pain.
A midwife had checked on her at around 6.25am and found her ‘sleeping and breathing.’
The next time a medic went into the room at around 8.25am, Lisa was found unresponsive.
Val Wroe, Lisa’s aunt, said: “Should more have been done at that time? That’s the question that torments us.”
It has taken almost two years for an inquest into Lisa’s death to be heard and during that time her family had been presented with several causes of death.
Initial reports indicated Lisa had died as a result of an amniotic fluid embolism, yet this was ruled out by pathologists at Tuesday’s hearing.
Professor Sebastian Lucas, expert in pathology, said the fat embolism in Lisa’s lungs had been most likely caused by ‘enthusiastic’ CPR.
Prof Lucas and two other experts also ruled out pre-eclampsia or anaphylaxis as a cause of death.
Experts at the hearing agreed it was most likely that Lisa’s had died of Sudden Adult Death Syndrome.