I’ve only skim read, but that study seems to be focused on intubation techniques and issues with the process. Whereas during the inquiry they were discussing tubes becoming dislodged which is completely different.
Agreed. It's like comparing a student phlebotomist failing to find a vein with someone deliberately yanking out someone's IV.
She wasn't a student nurse in 2012 and 2015. She did training placements at Liverpool Women's after she qualified as a registered nurse.
It does discuss it further on, but this is only unexplained ones
She qualified as a Band 5 nurse in September 2011 and went on to start working full-time at the hospital from January 2012 before qualifying to work with intensive care babies in the spring of 2015.
Yes, which is why I was correcting your statement that she was a student nurse. Her placements at Liverpool Women's were at the end of 2012 and the beginning of 2015.She qualified as a Band 5 nurse in September 2011 and went on to start working full-time at the hospital from January 2012 before qualifying to work with intensive care babies in the spring of 2015.
Who is baby serial killer Lucy Letby?
Her trial spanned 10 months, but what is known about the nurse who murdered seven newborn babies?www.bbc.co.uk
General nursing training is one thing- she was not qualified until spring 2015 to work in NICU or SCBU- she was doing her training placements in 2012 and 2015 and was not at that point qualified to work in special care baby units. That is why during the enquiry they referred to those 2 placements as training placements as she was not fully trained and qualified at that point to work in those specific units.
Why wouldn't they pass her placement if nobody made the connection? She would have been doing this covertly.
I'm not sure we have sufficient information to know it was directly related to doing procedures properly. It sounds to me as if these breathing tubes were dislodged, moved after their placement, which is exactly what she was found guilty of doing to baby K. Nurses of LL's level wouldn't be inserting breathing tubes, they were all inserted by doctors at the CoCH.
And a baby sick enough to have a breathing tube would be sedated. It's not like a feeding tube. So they couldn't dislodge them themselves.
It just isn’t the case that they can’t and don’t dislodge because the babies are sedated-
Yet the rates here were reported to be less than 1% on all other shifts apart from Letby's. (And it was termed dislodgement, not extubation.)
This is from New Zealand but is the form they complete after an unexpected dislodgement- have a look at the tickboxes of activities that were happening during it (I’m fairly sure they haven’t just added irrelevant ones to make the form longer).
This link is about extubation, which is removal of the tube. It's not the same thing as tubes moving too far in or being in the wrong place after they've been correctly sited.
