Preventable deaths, ‘near-misses’ caused by overcrowding in Alberta emergency rooms, documents show

The Globe and Mail: Among the anonymized cases, which were collected by the AMA section of emergency medicine, was a man in his 50s who appeared weak and was short of breath, but left an ED without being seen after about eight hours. He arrived at the hospital the next day by ambulance, suffered cardiac arrest and was admitted to intensive care with a serious bloodstream infection. He eventually died owing to multiorgan failure…