Redeem now - A British tourist in Jamaica died after heavy drinking during a 21-cocktail bar challenge.
- A coroner said that the man died in his hotel room of alcohol-related gastritis.
- His family called his emergency treatment "disgusting" and suggested he could have survived.
A British tourist in Jamaica died after trying to complete a challenge to drink all 21 cocktails on a bar menu, an inquest found.
Timothy Alan Southern, a 53-year-old from Staffordshire, England, was on a family vacation when he undertook the challenge, ITV News reported.
The coroner's report, issued last Wednesday and seen by Insider, said Southern was found in his hotel room at the Royal Decameron Club Caribbean in the island's tourist hub of Saint Ann in May last year.
He died of "acute gastritis with associated alcohol intoxication," the report said, adding that he had been "drinking heavily during the day."
After earlier consuming brandy and beer, Southern joined a pair of Canadian tourists who were celebrating a birthday with the cocktail challenge, ITV News reported, citing the inquest hearing.
After consuming 12 of the 21 cocktails, Southern returned to his hotel room. Family members raised the alarm when they found him there, the UK outlet the Stoke Sentinel reported.
An unnamed family member at the inquest criticized the medical care Southern received after a nurse was alerted, calling his treatment "disgusting" and suggesting that he might have survived with better care, the outlet reported.
"He was on his back choking," the outlet reported the family member saying.
"I put him in the recovery position and screamed for an ambulance," they continued. "He was making a gurgling sound. As soon as he was in the recovery position he vomited. I was shouting his name with no response."
The family member said that when asked if she had called an ambulance, the nurse said no, and only gave chest compressions rather than full CPR.
"I thought she would take over. But that was not the case. I noticed he was starting to lose temperature. I checked his pulse and couldn't find it," they added.
"Maybe if she had known what she was doing, maybe he would still be here," the family member said of the nurse.
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