Earlier this year, a woman sought treatment for abdominal pain at a health center in the county. She was sent home twice with the assessment that the pain was likely due to gallstones.
A referral for an ultrasound examination was written, but before it was done, the pain increased and the woman sought emergency medical care. Only then was a pregnancy test that turned out to be positive and the woman was referred to the women's clinic instead. There it was found that she had extra-uterine pregnancy, pregnancy outside the uterus. This caused the fallopian tube to burst and the patient had to be operated on urgently.
Chief physician: "Desirable with pregnancy test earlier"According to chief physician Sonja Sundqvist, pregnancy tests should be performed on all women with abdominal pain, especially women with low abdominal pain at a fertile age.
- It would have been desirable to have a pregnancy test at an earlier stage. Then you could have had a suspicion earlier, she says.
In addition to mental illness, the woman lost a large amount of blood that required transfusions. The health center, emergency room and surgeon's office were notified to the IVO in early September this year.