A few thoughts so far..
Firstly this,
12:52pm
The nurse recalls the efforts made to resuscitate Child D, which were made in established guidelines, and ultimately efforts were not successful.
She recalls the parents were there at the time.
After Child D had died, she recalls having a conversation with Lucy Letby on the resuscitation drugs used.
A chart advising dose levels for the drugs would usually be kept by the child, but this A4 chart, a laminated piece of paper, was missing.
The nurse said that chart was missing, and the resuscitation drugs were administered by calculating the doses with Child D's weight, and using her years of experience.
The chart "eventually turned up", the court hears, as "it must have gone missing in the stress of everything".
Lucy Letby asked the nurse how she knew what dose levels to give, and the nurse explained how she had done so.
I’ve mentioned part of nurse training is half theory and half hands in practice. Whether an emergency or not; nurses are actually trained in their first year alone about drug calculations. This training also makes reference to drug calculations based on weight (whether neonatal or not), it is generally common knowledge in this area that it is part of training. As a “specialised nurse who took additional training” and whether this is an emergency or not, I fail to see how any nurse would not know this basic fact in drug calculation..It makes no sense at all. MOO
Secondly, I can’t believe the mix up and chaos which seems to be relayed in todays hearing, it’s quite sad, that poor baby and of course her parents and in hindsight delay of her treatment could have prevented how poorly she was in the first instance. My thoughts are very much with all those affected by this.
In terms of the external and internal phone lines with hospitals, health care providers and doctors offices for example; many of them you need to press a dedicated number (for example #4 or something) to be able to dial an outside line. Now IF this was indeed the parents of baby A&B who were on the other end of that phone call.. “someone” would need to actively dial the dedicated number in order to be able to dial an outside (external) phone number.
All my own thoughts of todays hearing of course, the laminated drug card missing is also quite bizarre,. Was LL not hovering around with a clipboard previously, did she remove it? I really don’t know what to think today- but with baby D, right from the start things are delayed, mistakes, things missing and then there’s that odd phone call in the middle of that chaos.
