A Form 4 male student of Lu Ming Choi Lutheran Lutheran Middle School in Tsuen Wan, during the physical education class of the school in March of the previous year, suffered a sudden discomfort while running and fainted and was sent to hospital for emergency treatment.
The Coroner's Court held a six-day coroner inquest and summoned 15 witnesses including the boy’s mother, school teacher, doctor, and forensic doctor. When the coroner He Junyao guided the jury, he provided them with 2 options for the verdict: natural cause of death and The cause of death is suspicious, and that if a boy is believed to have died of lymphocytic myocarditis, as the forensic doctor said, he can choose the former; if he refuses to accept the forensic argument, he can be ruled as suspicious of the cause of death.
The jury withdrew from court today (31st) to discuss and unanimously ruled that the boy died of nature.
The deceased Xiao Yetao (19 years old, Secondary 4 student), during a run at the Sports Hall in Shing Mun Valley Park on March 18, 2019, suffered a sudden discomfort and fainted after a few minutes and was sent to hospital for emergency treatment.
The Lu Mingcai Lutheran Middle School of Tsuen Wan Lutheran School, which Xiao Sheng attended before, was listed as an interested party and represented by barrister Tan Junjie.
Has fainted at school but has not been diagnosed with any disease
He Guan earlier summarized his testimony that Xiao had fainted at school before the incident and was sent to the hospital and stayed in the hospital for 3 days for treatment. However, no disease was diagnosed at that time and the doctor did not prohibit Xiao from exercising.
Xiao later felt unwell at school, and at the request of Zhu Meiyun, a staff member of the school office, updated the child's physical condition survey form, stating that he had heart disease and was not suitable for physical education.
The teacher did not receive information indicating that it is not suitable to attend physical education class
Weixiao’s physical education teacher Zou Weiye said that he had not received the relevant documents from beginning to end.
On the day of the incident, he still asked if Xiao could participate in running, but Xiao fainted after running for a few minutes.
The ambulanceman said that Xiao had no breathing and pulse when he rushed to the scene to give first aid.
When the principal Ma Yujuan gave evidence, she admitted that the school had not fully followed the Education Bureau’s guidelines to deal with the case of students with physical problems before the incident. If it had not distributed the consent form for physical education to the parents, an emergency meeting was held to review and make a decision. improve.
Confession of the main witness.
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Forensic medicine says lymphocytic myocarditis is fatal
Forensic doctor Lin Baitong confessed that Xiao had no structural or congenital heart disease and his death was caused by lymphocytic myocarditis, which was a "natural cause of death."
Lin said that lymphocyte infiltration and cardiac cell necrosis were found in Xiao's body, which coincided with lymphocytic myocarditis.
He also pointed out that the causes of myocarditis are mainly divided into three categories, namely viral infection, autoimmune disorder, or drug-induced.
When lymphocytes come into contact with heart muscle cells, they cause an inflammatory reaction, which in turn leads to necrosis of the heart cells.
He also pointed out that myocarditis has the potential to cause fatal arrhythmia, which can cause sudden fainting and death. Therefore, people with myocarditis are not recommended to exercise vigorously, because exercise will affect the healing of heart cells, but there is no literature that exercises will increase the arrhythmia. And death.
Case Number: CCDI-730/2019(ST)
Sudden death in sports hall | The principal admitted that he had not followed the guidelines and issued a consent form to parents to review and improve the sudden death in sports hall | Forensic medicine said that boys had no congenital heart disease and died of myocarditis. I don't know if I have a physical education class
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