Southwark Crown Court has handed down a suspended sentence to a nurse who caused the death of a 76-year-old patient by giving him the wrong blood group during a blood transfusion.
Ali Huseyin, who was blood type O, received a unit of AB blood during a transfusion after Lea Ledesma mixed up his name with another patients. Mr Huseyin died the same evening.
Ledesma, 49, was convicted of manslaughter by gross negligence following a trial at Southwark Crown Court in December 2016. The trial heard how Ledesma was working in the intensive care unit of the London Heart Hospital in Marylebone when the incident happened on 7 May 2014.
Ledesma received a custodial sentence of 18 months, suspended for two years, and a 300-hour unpaid work order.
After sentencing, Daniel Jones from the CPS said:
“Lea Ledesma made inexcusable errors, which ultimately cost the life of a patient in her care. The hospital had a number of systems in place designed to prevent such incidents happening – but Ledesma failed in her duty to carry out the necessary checks. Ledesma initially tried to lay the blame elsewhere, but the evidence put forward by the prosecution showed she had been grossly negligent in her actions.”
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