it’s a bit of an odd hypothesis. Why on earth, if she’d been using air embolism as a murder method for a long time and hiding it extremely well, would she ever suggest as a cause of death/collapse?
Seems like you've hit a bit of a stump and are doing a bit of deflecting. Instead of trying to think why she couldn't have done this, I suggest you look at the evidence impartially, because it's overwhelmingly bad for Letby. Instead of taking into consideration any of this evidence your question is instead, why would she suggest it.
Well for a start Letby Didn't file the datix about the apparent incident until she absolutely needed to. Like I said, bungs and extensions fall off from iv devices all the time and they do not cause air embolisms. The prosecution called it an Insurance policy. I suppose only Letby really knows. But she specifically targeted certain babies because they were vulnerable and their deaths could be explained with other issues. This was not the case with the triplets. She targeted them because they were triplets. They didn't have any issues. Letby must have had a sixth sense to pick up on something, that didn't actually cause an air embolism for baby O, but for which the consultants would later link to the death and medical experts would also believe to be an air embolism.
But my point is, that just because you can't understand why she would bring up air embolism, it doesn't undermine the evidence. There is plenty of it.
A second Datix was filed on the same day, claiming that peripheral access was lost. Dr Breary says this isn't true. He says he doesn't believe at any point that IV access was lost.
We know from the resus notes that the baby recieved resuscitation drugs intravenously. So Letby is lying. And just to add, the Datix is actually filed by E.Powell who wasn't even on shift at the event.
But guess what couldn't have happened if, for example, peripheral access was lost! You guessed it, air embolism via injection No possibility to inject air with no peripheral access. If someone viewed the Datix and viewed it at face value, they would exclude the possibility of this happening.
And let's not forget, in her notes Letby also claimed that baby O went from optiflow to CPAP, because that of course could explain potentially why the baby was full of air. But the baby wasn't moved to CPAP. Letby was asked why she had written this and claimed she "couldn't remember" oh well, nevermind
So to sum up, Letby is creating the impression that potentially baby O died of an air embolism, but she thinks she had covered herself because she says she noticed it and took action. If anything comes of it, she would look like a competent nurse, who took action.
Remember, baby O was her designated baby, and there wasn't any issues, prior.
She still probably didn't want to draw too much attention to it but when the consultants realised it may be AE, she didn't have much choice. She tries to create the impression an accidental air embolism may have occurred with her open bung datix, and then the second Datix, suggesting air couldn't have been injected.
