Notable extracts
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Dr Martyn Pitman
Dr Evans drove up from Carmarthenshire, sat down over a cup of coffee, spent ten minutes looking through the notes, and declared with absolute certainty that Baby O was killed through deliberate harm. That is how this entire prosecution started.
Dr Martyn Pitman
The haemoglobin dropped from 197 to 86 in a matter of hours. That is catastrophic blood loss. No blood transfusion was given. How does an experienced consultant see a haemoglobin of 86 and not immediately transfuse that baby?
Dr Martyn Pitman
The causes of subcapsular haematoma include prematurity, low birth weight, birth trauma, hypoxia, sepsis, coagulopathy, and monochorionicity. Baby O had most of them. Evans ignored all of them and attributed the death to an air embolism via a nasogastric tube.
Dr Martyn Pitman
A paracentesis cannula was inserted into the right side of this baby's abdomen — the no-go zone in neonatology — by a consultant who had an ultrasound machine in the room and did not use it. The first aspiration produced frank blood, not gas. That should have ended the procedure immediately.