Articles labeled: heart attack

A retiring teacher of 36 years had a heart attack and died just minutes after she dismissed her students for the last time.

“She had the first heart attack at school,” she said. “She was revived, and en route had another one. She had a history of heart trouble.”

Principal Alice Woodward said students were not on campus.

“The children had not been gone very long — two or three minutes, maybe five,” she said.

Woodward said Mrs. Smith was a fine teacher who loved technology, and was someone on whom teachers and students could depend.

Yikes! How scary that a mistake like this can happen…

A mother died within three hours of giving birth after an epidural anaesthetic was mistakenly fed into her arm instead of her back, an inquest has heard.

Mayra Cabrera, 30, originally from the Philippines, suffered a heart attack after being given the drug during the birth of her healthy 8lb baby Zachary. Mrs Cabrera died on May 11, 2004, at the Great Western Hospital in Swindon, Wilts, where she had worked as a theatre nurse since moving to Britain in 2002.