DVT sufferer's legs amputated after nurse missed vital jabs

Published on Tuesday 22 September 2009 22:10

A NURSE failed to give an elderly man limb-saving injections in a blunder which resulted in both his legs being amputated.

Stella Nythinya, 32, claimed she had given the man, in his sixties, five anti-clotting injections to treat deep-vein thrombosis (DVT). But he was rushed to hospital and had his legs removed after one of his feet turned blue. He later died but it was not proved amputation was the cause.

The syringes, some unused, were later found in a clinical waste bin at Newark Care Home in Port Glasgow by the manager, Mary Inglis Davidson.

Nythinya denied failing to give the jabs while employed by Southern Cross Healthcare. But the Nursing and Midwifery Council ruled she failed to give two of the jabs. It will now decide if she should be struck off.