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Ethan James

EXPLAINED: Heart attack triple zero call not given right priority - The Real Truth

Ambulance Tasmania's prioritising failure potentially cost a man's life, a coroner said. (Rob Blakers/AAP PHOTOS)

An ambulance wasn't initially sent to a man suffering several symptoms of a heart attack because information was incorrectly entered into dispatch systems.

Anton Lukacevich, 64, subsequently died on January 25, 2022 and potentially "lost an opportunity for survival" as a result of the Ambulance Tasmania failure, a coroner has ruled. 

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