THE INQUEST into the death of a care home resident in Maryport who died after suffering a choking episode has opened.
David Sprott, 64, died in West Cumberland Hospital in Whitehaven on August 29, 2024.
Area coroner for Cumbria, Kirsty Gomersal, said that Mr Sprott suffered the choking episode in Riverside Court Care Home in Maryport, and was subsequently admitted to the hospital's emergency department.
She said that despite treatment, Mr Sprott was confirmed by clinicians to have died four days later.
A doctor's statement was provided to the court in lieu of a post-mortem report, offering a cause of death of hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy, due to respiratory and cardiac arrest due to choking.
Contributory factors to Mr Sprott's death offered were epilepsy and aspiration pneumonia.
Ms Gomersal stated that due to choking being an unnatural cause of death, an inquest is required.
A provisional date for a conclusion hearing was set for January 23, 2025.
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