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23.05.2023 - 08:27 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A man with Down's Syndrome died after choking on leftover sausage rolls in a care home.
Jimmy Billingsley, who had been placed on a speech and language therapist (SALT) plan due to high risk of choking, was supposed to supervised at meal times and be served cut up 2cm chunks of soft food at Naylorsfield care home in Belle Vale, Liverpool, where he lived, an inquest heard.
But on December 18 2021, the 55-year-old was seated alone with another disabled resident at a table with a bowl of cocktail sausages and sausage rolls left over from a staff Christmas party the night before. At his inquest on Monday, May 22, support worker Zoe Parr said she was washing dishes in the kitchen when she noticed Jimmy get up and approach another member of staff, who had her back turned, the Liverpool Echo reports.
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She said: "She kept saying 'he's choking, he's choking', and started slapping Jimmy on the back. I went over to them and he was still on his feet. He was making a strange noise; he was gasping."
She slapped him on the back and attempted to perform the Heimlich manoeuvre, but was unable to dislodge the mass of food in his throat, and he collapsed.
She said: "His breathing was laboured. He was going blue in his fingers and lips. The colour was draining from him."
Paramedics performed CPR at the scene before taking Jimmy to Whiston Hospital, where a CT revealed he had suffered brain damage due to lack of oxygen. His condition continued to decline, and he died on Christmas Eve of a hypoxic brain injury due to a cardiac arrest caused by choking.
Paramedic Vincent Jones, who treated Jimmy, said the mass of food found in Jimmy's airway was 'the most difficult blockage
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