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Lucy Letby used "air embolism" on an answer in her QIS training, which she completed, 2 weeks before Baby A’s death - the training was May 2015.
The QIS training is intensive care training, meaning she could work with sicker children and handle Long Line / Central IVs (hence the air embolism answer to a question - as central lines go very near to the heart) - it was after this training and her gaining access to IV lines that the mottling rashes / crashes started. Letby did not have this type of access to high dependency babies before this training in 2015.
Over a year later on 23/24 June 2016, 2/3 triplets, in Letby's care, die in very unusual circumstances. These would be the last deaths on the unit. Over the previous year, there had been 13 deaths on the unit. The average over the previous 5 years was 2 or 3 deaths. None of them had been suspicious.
On June 30th 2016, less than a week after the deaths of the two triplets, Dr Ravi Jayaram sent an email to his colleagues sharing the Lee & Tanswell air embolism paper at 8:30am. This was the first mention by any of the staff in relation to air embolism.
At 3pm on the same day, Lucy Letby submitted a Datix about the potential for an air embolism, due to bungs.
Letby filed this datix, after Dr A, tipped her off that there was suspicions about the deaths of the 2 triplets and it would probably go to an inquest.
She also filed another Datix that same day stating that Baby O lost peripheral access during resus and equipment required during resuscitation to establish intraosseus access was not available on the unit.
At trial the staff working on the resuscitation of Baby O testified that he never lost peripheral access, and his records do not show that either.
Why would she be filing two Datix records nearly a week after the incidents, after she got word that the doctor felt the death of the babies concerned was odd.
After she was arrested Letby was asked if she knew about air embolisms.
She denied to police that she knew what an air embolism was. She then, claimed she didn't know it could happen in babies (she said she thought it only could happen in adults).
The QIS training is intensive care training, meaning she could work with sicker children and handle Long Line / Central IVs (hence the air embolism answer to a question - as central lines go very near to the heart) - it was after this training and her gaining access to IV lines that the mottling rashes / crashes started. Letby did not have this type of access to high dependency babies before this training in 2015.
Over a year later on 23/24 June 2016, 2/3 triplets, in Letby's care, die in very unusual circumstances. These would be the last deaths on the unit. Over the previous year, there had been 13 deaths on the unit. The average over the previous 5 years was 2 or 3 deaths. None of them had been suspicious.
On June 30th 2016, less than a week after the deaths of the two triplets, Dr Ravi Jayaram sent an email to his colleagues sharing the Lee & Tanswell air embolism paper at 8:30am. This was the first mention by any of the staff in relation to air embolism.
At 3pm on the same day, Lucy Letby submitted a Datix about the potential for an air embolism, due to bungs.
Letby filed this datix, after Dr A, tipped her off that there was suspicions about the deaths of the 2 triplets and it would probably go to an inquest.
She also filed another Datix that same day stating that Baby O lost peripheral access during resus and equipment required during resuscitation to establish intraosseus access was not available on the unit.
At trial the staff working on the resuscitation of Baby O testified that he never lost peripheral access, and his records do not show that either.
Why would she be filing two Datix records nearly a week after the incidents, after she got word that the doctor felt the death of the babies concerned was odd.
After she was arrested Letby was asked if she knew about air embolisms.
She denied to police that she knew what an air embolism was. She then, claimed she didn't know it could happen in babies (she said she thought it only could happen in adults).
