调查得知，健康的男婴吞下一枚 10 便士硬币后不幸身亡

小海登·大卫·刘易斯·马修斯 (Hayden David Lewis Matthews) 在被送往医院仅 14 个月后突然去世

An inquest has heard that a “fit and healthy” baby boy tragically died after swallowing a 10p coin.

调查得知，一名“身体健康”的男婴在吞下一枚 10 便士硬币后不幸身亡。

Little Hayden David Lewis Matthews died suddenly at just 14 months after being rushed into hospital. The tot lived between Truro and Redruth with his separated parents, Kirsty Davies and David Matthews.

小海登·大卫·刘易斯·马修斯 (Hayden David Lewis Matthews) 在被送往医院仅 14 个月后突然去世。这个小孩与他分居的父母科斯蒂·戴维斯和大卫·马修斯住在特鲁罗和雷德鲁斯之间。

At the time of his death in 2023, Hayden was in the care of his father and had been with his dad for around six weeks prior.

海登于 2023 年去世时，由他的父亲照顾，此前他已经和父亲在一起大约六周了。

The inquest heard how Mr Matthews had taken Hayden to collect his new parter and her son and bring them to the hospital as her son had injured his foot. As the Mirror reports, Hayden was alert for the first 20 minutes of the journey before falling quiet, with his father thinking he had fallen asleep.

调查得知，马修斯先生如何带海登去接他的新伴侣和她的儿子，并将他们带到医院，因为她的儿子脚受伤了。据《镜报》报道，海登在旅程的前 20 分钟里一直保持警惕，然后才安静下来，他的父亲认为他已经睡着了。

Shortly after arriving to the hospital, a nurse notice Hayden was looking unwell in his car seat while they were in the waiting room. The medic took him into a side room and rang the emergency buzzer. Emergency staff rushed in and despite their best efforts he died later that evening at Royal Cornwall Hospital.

到达医院后不久，一名护士注意到，当他们在候诊室时，海登坐在汽车座椅上看起来不太舒服。医护人员把他带到侧室并按响了紧急蜂鸣器。急救人员赶到现场，尽管尽了最大努力，但当晚晚些时候，他还是在皇家康沃尔医院去世。

A post-mortem carried out by a forensic pathologist following his death found that Hayden had no sings of physical or psychological illnesses or concerns to explain his death. However during the examination a foreign object was found inside his oesophagus. This was later found to be a 10p coin.

法医病理学家在海登死后进行的尸检发现，海登没有任何身体或心理疾病的迹象，也没有任何可以解释他死亡的担忧。然而，在检查过程中，他的食道内发现了异物。后来发现这是一枚10便士的硬币。

The coin was discoloured sparking fears it had been stuck there for some time. It was deemed unlikely it would have been swallowed or inhaled recently, Cornwall Live reported.

这枚硬币变色，引发人们担心它已经卡在那里一段时间了。据康沃尔现场报道，最近认为它不太可能被吞下或吸入。

Police launched a probe into the tots death and officers concluded there was nothing suspicious

警方对儿童死亡事件展开调查，结论是没有任何可疑之处

Senior coroner for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, Andre Cox, as part of his conclusion into the death, said everything he would expect a responsible parent to do had been done for Hayden - including visits to the doctor and treatment. He added if the baby died as a result of swallowing a coin he would expect perforation of the oesophagus and an infection, which did not occur.

康沃尔郡和锡利群岛的高级验尸官安德烈·考克斯在对海登的死亡结论中表示，他所期望的负责任的父母为海登所做的一切都已经完成了，包括去看医生和接受治疗。他补充说，如果婴儿因吞下一枚硬币而死亡，他预计会导致食道穿孔和感染，但这种情况并没有发生。

He said: “While the finger of suspicion points at the 10p coin, actually what we would expect to be there if the death had resulted from the 10p coin is not there. There isn't the perforation to lead to the infection and sepsis. Also, we have absolutely no idea when or where or how the coin has got where it was found."

他说：“虽然怀疑的矛头指向 10 便士硬币，但实际上，如果死亡是由 10 便士硬币造成的，我们所期望的情况并不在那里。没有穿孔导致感染和败血症。此外，我们完全不知道这枚硬币是何时、何地或如何被发现的。”

He said it appeared to be a death from an unascertained cause and recorded an open conclusion into the death.

他说，这似乎是一起死因不明的死亡事件，并对死亡记录了一个公开的结论。