Dublin man lay dead for 'four or five hours in A&E waiting area before being noticed by
Take surveys. Get PAID: http://bit.ly/2XivKE0. Dublin man lay dead for 'four or five hours in A&E waiting area before being noticed by staff'. A man lay dead for up to five hours in an A&E waiting area before staff realised, an inquest has heard.
Brian Hamilton, 40, was found unresponsive - slumped forward on a bench with his face on his backpack - at Tallaght Hospital in Dublin on April 14 last year, after arriving there 12 hours earlier, Dublin Coroner's Court heard.
Mr Hamilton's family were contacted by the hospital and told that attempts to revive him had failed.
Yesterday, his brother Michael told of his astonishment upon arriving at the hospital and seeing Brian, who he said had been dead for a number of hours.
'When I saw Brian, I was shocked. It was clear he had been dead for four to five hours as rigor mortis had set in. I was sure of this as I am a butcher by trade,' Michael told the inquest.
Brian Hamilton, from Crumlin, in Dublin, was found unresponsive in the A&E at 3pm, the coroner's court heard.
A couple noticed him slumped over while seated in the waiting area and alerted a nurse, who checked him and found him unresponsive.
Staff conducted CPR but he was pronounced dead at 3.51pm. Brian had spoken to security guard Robert Armstrong when he arrived at the hospital at 2.45am earlier that day.
'He asked me what time the Luas [rail service] came back into service. Another patient interrupted us. He walked off in the direction of A&E,' Mr Armstrong said.
He watched him approach the reception desk at A&E, but there was no one there.
CCTV footage showed him take a seat in the waiting area, use the bathroom and return to a different spot in the waiting area, before the alarm was raised several hours later.
Michael Hamilton got a call from his sister at 3.30pm saying Brian was in hospital. The family were told attempts to revive him were unsuccessful.
His sister Maria Eustace said Brian was the
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