Well I don't think Mr Myers argument stands to reason because in the first alleged incident child I was being bottle fed by her mother when she was awake and by NGT when she was asleep.
Also we didn't get to hear about this evidence because of the lack of reporting earlier last week, but in the opening speech for the incident in question the prosecution said this :
" '[Child I] noted to be pale in cot by myself at 03:20hrs … apnoea alarm in situ and had not sounded. On examination [Child I] centrally white, minimal shallow breaths followed by gasping observed.'
The registrar was called to the unit
at 3.23am. On arrival, he saw nurses giving Child I full CPR. The notes suggest he had to reposition the ETT.
A consultant doctor administered adrenaline, intubated and ventilated Child I.
An X-ray showed gross gaseous distention throughout the bowel and signs of chronic lung disease of prematurity (CLD).
Child I, the prosecution say, had the same problem that she had when Letby had fed her on September 30.
The medical team felt that the abdominal distention had affected her ability to expand the chest and in turn caused desaturation.
Both nursing and medical staff commented on a bruised like discolouration to the right of the sternum. They assumed this was the result of chest compressions.
The category of nursing care was raised a level.
"Ironically," the prosecution say, Letby was made the designated nurse, as she was more qualified.
Medical notes showed the ETT had been "displaced" and,
at 4.25am, the NGT was "curled in the oesophagus", which the prosecution say would have prevented release of the pressure created by excess air in the stomach."
Recap: Prosecution opens trial of Lucy Letby accused of Countess of Chester Hospital baby murders
