翻头条： Lost opportunity to save Elu's life: coroner

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Lost opportunity to save Elu's life: coroner
验尸官称额鲁错失获救良机

Source: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/lost-o ... -20100531-wp60.html

A Sydney hospital's failure to test an eight-year-old boy for meningitis was a "lost opportunity" to save his life, a coroner has found.
一名验尸官发现，悉尼一所医院未能对一名八岁男童的作脑膜炎所需的检查，从而失去了挽救其生命的机会。

Isaraelu Pele, or Elu, died from bacterial meningitis at Bankstown Hospital on December 18, 2007.
2007年12月18日，Isaraelu Pele（亦即额鲁（Elu））因细菌性脑膜炎死于Bankstown医院。

The inquest was told he went to Bankstown Hospital on December 16 and the Children's Hospital at Westmead the next day but was discharged despite suffering from severe vomiting, headaches and lethargy.
（死因）调查组被告知额鲁于12月16日住进Bankstown医院，并于次日转往Westmead儿童医院。但他在伴有严重呕吐、头疼和嗜睡等症状的情况下仍被获准出院。

He had also seen his family doctor twice and another GP since becoming ill on December 14.
从12月14日感到不适以来，额鲁看过两次他的家庭医生和另一位全科医生。

The inquest was told that a lumbar puncture, thought to be the definitive test for meningitis, was not carried out during his first visit to Bankstown Hospital.
调查组还被告知，在他首次住进Bankstown医院的时候，医院未对他进行腰椎穿刺检查，而该项检查可用于确诊脑膜炎。

Deputy State Coroner Hugh Dillon today said that doctors considered the diagnosis of meningitis but did not conduct the tests.
州副总验尸官Hugh Dillon今称，医生当时考虑到了脑膜炎的可能性，但未能对其进行相关的检查。

"This was a lost opportunity to save Elu's life," Mr Dillon told the Coroner's Court in Glebe.
“这样就错过了救治额鲁生命的机会，”Dillon在Glebe的死因庭上这样讲。

"Instead, the diagnosis reached was that he was suffering from a relatively benign viral gastroenteritis."
“与此相反，当时对他的诊断是相对轻微的肠胃炎”
Mr Dillon's formal finding was that Elu died of bacterial meningitis that had not been diagnosed by a number of clinicians who examined him.
Dillon的正式裁决指出，由于数名治疗他的医务人员未能正确确诊，导致额鲁死于细菌性脑膜炎。

However, he acknowledged the difficulty for doctors at both hospitals and for the GPs, in that Elu did not appear to have shown the classic signs of the condition, including neck stiffness, a rash and photophobia.
然而，Dillon也承认，因额鲁并未出现包括颈部僵硬、出疹子、畏光等典型的脑膜炎症状，对两所医院的医务人员的确诊造成一定困难。

Mr Dillon made 11 recommendations, including that the Sydney South West Area Health Service and the Children's Hospital provide for senior staff to assess children presenting with signs of toxicity before they are discharged.
Dillon做出了11项建议，其中包括：出现中毒迹象的儿童，需要得到悉尼西南区健康服务署和儿童医院的资深医务人员的评估，方可出院。

Elu's parents and two of his siblings supported each other as the coroner read out his findings.
额鲁的父母和他的两名兄弟互相搀扶着，听完了验尸官宣读的裁决。

[ 本帖最后由 icetea2007 于 2010-5-31 18:07 编辑 ]

icetea2007

Deputy State Coroner 要怎么翻才对呢？

BOC

州副总验尸官？

BOC

不知道为什么加不了活动分，呼唤xingbu和bulaohu来加分

icetea2007

看了corner的英文解释后，没敢把这个词翻作验尸官。看了BOC的帖子，再查了一下验尸官的中文解释，才发现自己对验尸官一词理解有误解，原来验尸官不需要医学或法医常识，主要负责审讯工作，而不是我之前认为的古代称作仵作的职位，那个职位现在叫法医。

Corner:
a public officer whose principal duty is to inquire by an inquest into the cause of any death which there is reason to suppose is not due to natural causes

icetea2007

晕，coroner居然打成了corner

steveking

James Patterson 小说 Women's Murder Club 里的 Claire 就是做具体解剖工作的 coroner ...

BOC

楼主是学医的吧，这篇里面很多医学名词。
如果对翻译内容没不同意见的话这两天就转到新闻版

icetea2007

不是的，我是学IT的。

astina

理工科的同学就是严谨

BOC

转到新闻版