Fatality exploration hears from nurses who saw Lionel Desmond in hospital
The Desmond deadliness exploration has listened from 3 of a doctors who saw Lionel Desmond in a months before he killed his family and himself — and it is now conference another indicate of view: that of a nurses.
Heather Wheaten, a predicament nurse who saw Desmond on Oct. 24, 2016, during St. Martha’s Regional Hospital in Antigonish, N.S., is a initial declare being called to attest Tuesday.
As Judge Warren Zimmer hopes to make recommendations to forestall serve deaths — like those at a heart of this deadliness exploration — he’s looking into whether there are gaps as someone moves from troops caring to a municipal health-care system.
The exploration also continues to examine either a municipal clinicians who saw Desmond, an Afghanistan fight veteran, were lerned to commend a symptoms of post-traumatic highlight commotion and domestic violence.
Both join in this case.
The exploration listened final week about Desmond’s recover from sanatorium on Jan. 2, 2017, a day before he killed his wife, Shanna, his daughter, Aaliyah, and his mother, Brenda, in a Upper Big Tracadie, N.S., where he’d been vital before his mom asked him to leave on New Year’s Eve.
Desmond, 33, arrived during a St. Martha’s puncture room on Jan. 1, 2017, after he’d spent a night before yelling and slamming furniture. He told doctors his mom asked him to go somewhere else after frightening their 10-year-old daughter.
Although he was kept overnight, a psychiatrist who expelled Desmond told a exploration that there were no signs he would mistreat himself or anyone else.
But justification already presented suggests a nurses might have seen a opposite chronicle of Desmond, one who slept feeble and had a bad night in hospital. They wrote about that in his chart, a exploration has heard, though Dr. Faisal Rahman — a psychiatrist who saw him — didn’t review it again before releasing Desmond.
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