Pregnant beauty therapist and unborn baby died from septic shock ’caused by years of ketamine abuse’
She was treated for a recurring urinary tract infection(UTI) but medics failed to carry out a pregnancy test on the 22-year-old, who did not know she was expecting.
She was eventually diagnosed with sepsis during her final admission, where a scan also revealed she was 14 weeks pregnant but the baby had already died as a result of the infection.
Miss Tighe suffered three cardiac arrests shortly after birth was induced and died.
At the start of an inquest earlier his month, her mother, Jane, complained hospital staff ‘didn’t look beyond her ketamine use’ and were ‘not interested in investigating if anything else was wrong’.
But coroner Johanna Thompson has now ruled while there were missed opportunities to detect an unknown pregnancy, those failings did not cause her death as there was no infection of the foetus, placenta or birth canal.
Recording a narrative conclusion, she said Miss Tighe, of Lowestoft, Suffolk, went into septic shock due to a UTI with ‘medical complications arising from ketamine misuse’.
