Long QT syndrome occurs due to abnormalities in cardiac sodium and potassium ion channels that result in a propensity to fatal ventricular arrhythmias. Ventricular arrhythmias are precipitated by stimuli that involve the production of adrenalin, such as physical exercise (long QT type 1); fear or sudden or loud auditory noises – as in Kasia Ber’s case
Press release – 28th April 2006 Lisa’s family wish to thank, most sincerely, Mr Nicholas Rheinberg, the coroner for Cheshire, for his help and support which has enabled this new inquest to take place. Grateful thanks also go to Dr Elijah Behr for his care and dedication in screening us all, and for arranging for Lisa’s
A sudden death is a dramatic and/or spontaneous death that is unexpected. It is most commonly due to a dangerous disturbance of the heart’s rhythm caused by a heart condition. A coroner’s post-mortem can exclude most non-heart related causes of sudden death and also diagnose the actual cause if clear abnormalities of the heart’s structure can
Statement by Mr and Mrs Ber – Inquest into the Sudden Death of their daughter Kasia – 30th November 2006 Mr and Mrs Ber attended the inquest into the death of their late daughter, Kasia, today. Their daughter died of Sudden Adult Cardiac Death Syndrome (SADS), often known as sudden cardiac death. Mr and Mrs Ber are still
My husband, Terry, and I received a telephone call from our son-in-law on Saturday 10 January 1998 at approximately 8am to say that our daughter, Lisa Jane Browne, a nurse, aged 27 years, was being taken to hospital. My son-in-law told me that he had received a telephone call from the hospital ward, where Lisa was
As told by her mother, Doreen Harley (Copyright Doreen Harley) 26 August 1998 My husband Terry, surviving daughter Rachel, and I have returned from the inquest hearing following the death of my eldest daughter, Lisa Jane Browne, who died on 10 January 1998, aged 27 years. We have been given an “Open” verdict with the cause
Lisa’s family wish to thank, most sincerely, Mr Nicholas Rheinberg, the Coroner for Cheshire, for his help and support which has enabled this new Inquest to take place. Grateful thanks also go to Dr Elijah Behr for his care and dedication in screening us all, and for arranging for Lisa’s post mortem tissue to be genetically
On Friday 28th April 2006 at 2pm, after a five-year struggle by her family, the inquest into the death of the paediatric nurse, Lisa Jane Browne (born Lisa Jane Harley) from Stoke-on-Trent will be reopened in the publics’ interest, following personal intervention by the attorney general. The new inquest will be held in the West Annexe
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