Blackpool coroner rules on death of Fleetwood woman, 82, who suffered brain injury in fall at care home
Blackpool coroner submits ruling at inquest into 82-year-old Fleetwood woman’s death.
A coroner has ruled following an inquest into the death of an 82-year-old Fleetwood woman from a brain injury suffered in a fall.
Marian Mary Cross, 82, died in Blackpool Victoria Hospital last August, having been living at the time at Thornton Lodge Care Home in Thornton, where she suffered two falls in as many weeks.
She had been referred to the care home after a brief hospital stay in Preston following a fall at her then home in Fleetwood earlier in the year.
Following treatment at the Blackpool hospital for the second fall at the care home, her condition gradually deteriorated and a post mortem showed that she died of a catastrophic brain injury - a subdural hematoma - thought to have been suffered in the fall.
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Blackpool and Fylde senior coroner Alan Wilson returned a conclusion of accidental death, as the accidental fall had set off the course of events which had led to her death.
Pathological evidence showed that the brain injury was likely to have started small and grown to the the catastrophic proportions which proved fatal over time.
Mrs Cross had fallen while she was on her own in the dining room at the care home, but the inquest heard that her medical needs at the time were such that she did not require one-to-one attention.
The coroner said he was pleased, however, to see some changes had been introduced at the home under its new owners since the incident.