Notable extracts
Short verbatim extracts from the video. Each quote is under 80 words and attributed to the speaker. Extracted under fair-dealing for review and news reporting (CDPA 1988 s.30).
Dr Michael Fox
Intravenous air goes to the right side of the heart, frothing there, and then into the lungs, which filter it. It is not going to get into the cerebral arterial circulation. For that to happen you would need a right-to-left shunt. That was never alleged.
Dr Michael Fox
The frothy blood in the right ventricle — that is the classic post-mortem finding of fatal air embolism. If it is not there, the diagnosis falls. From what I have seen of the Thirlwall documents, it was not there.
Dr Michael Fox
The Hsu Li and Tanfield paper describes pulmonary arterial gas embolism arising from over-ventilation of premature lungs. That is completely different from what Evans was alleging. He appears to have misread or misapplied the paper entirely.