The life of a teenager may have been saved if she had been observed properly in hospital, a West Yorkshire coroner has said.
Laura Garner, 18, died after being admitted to Bradford Royal Infirmary with abdominal pains in September 2009.
The inquest heard drugs prescribed for Ms Garner were also not administered and the hospital has admitted her care fell below acceptable standards.
The coroner, Prof Paul Marks, recorded a narrative verdict.
The trainee hairdresser from Baildon, West Yorkshire, was told she may have been suffering from appendicitis or a urinary tract infection when she was admitted to hospital on 22 September 2009.
Miss Garner died 24 hours later. A post-mortem examination revealed she died as a result of septicaemia and acute pyelonephritis, a serious bacterial infection of the kidney.
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When Miss Garner was first admitted to hospital the specialist surgeon, Abid Hassan Mohammed Salih, recommended a series of tests and a prescription of the antibiotic trimethoprym, Bradford Coroners' Court was told.
When Mr Salih returned for his night shift the next day, he found out that the tests for appendicitis had come back negative and prescribed another antibiotic, ciproxin, to treat any possible urinary infection.
But the court heard no-one wrote a prescription for trimethoprym on the first night and although the ciproxin was prescribed on the second night, it also was never administered.
The inquest had also been told Miss Garner had an abnormally high heart rate and high temperature while in hospital but staff did not increase the frequency of their checks on her.
Prof Marks said despite Miss Garner undergoing a serious procedure to determine whether or not she was suffering from appendicitis, regular observations were not carried out.
He said: "Such observations, if made, are likely to have shown evidence of deterioration and, if acted upon, may have permitted therapeutic intervention."
A spokesman for the Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust said: "The trust has taken Laura's death extremely seriously and we acknowledge that Laura's care fell below an acceptable standard for which we apologise unreservedly.
"The trust took immediate action to investigate the circumstances surrounding this tragic loss of life and launched an extensive patient safety initiative called Safe.
"The Foundation Trust accepts fully the findings of the inquest and recognises that there are additional lessons to be learned for all medical and nursing staff and will act upon the findings as a matter of urgency."
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