Lucy Letby Case

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God if this is proven and she did do it, how horrific. Injecting air to cause an embolous just can't be accidental surely?!
Not that I know of. If there is medical evidence this is cause of death I don’t know how else that can be explained? You couldn’t argue mistake / incompetence on that.
 
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I can’t understand how people say scapegoat . Just today’s updates has me thinking GUILTY . Injecting air in the blood stream . collapsing happening on her night shifts then she moved to days and it followed but stopped at night . Injecting insulin . thats not hospital failings surely
 
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Those with nurse/insulin knowledge, what’s the likelihood of human error/incompetence if it was prescribed and the wrong dose given? Is this basic 101 stuff for nurses or could it be possible to make repeated mistakes if the hospital failures meant there were no 2 nurse checks?
Just echoing what others have said really but drug errors could happen but I’d struggle to see how it would occur continually as a mistake on the one ward over a short period multiple times. In my 12 years qualified I give insulin most days and I’ve known 3 nurses in this time who’ve administered too much in error, mainly due to prescriber’s poor handwriting on the drug administration chart making it appear like a different dosage (the patients were fine and the nurse alerts the manager that they’ve made an error). I think electronic kardexes are more a thing now in hospitals to eliminate the chance of error. Drug errors do happen and it’s registered nurses worst nightmare but it’s reported and rectified, you reflect on your practice etc and tend not to make that mistake ever again!
 
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Air embolisms are so rare within paediatrics! I’ve never come across it. You would have to push a lot of air in? Naturally you get some bubbles in infusion lines and that’s fine but goodness that’s made me feel a bit sick
 
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Does having red hair make a difference in drug administration amounts? I've honestly never heard of that. Is it a genetic thing linked to red hair that affects how the body processes something?
Yeah us gingers need upto 20% more anesthetic. I need the full 20% more. Its happened a few times I'm given what they expect will be enough for someone of my size but it never is enough.
 
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I have a horrible feeling about all this...thinking along the lines of Shipman.
 
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Seriously (if guilty) like how can young woman just decide to start doing this to innocent newborn babies ! Horrific 💔
 
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I can’t understand how people say scapegoat . Just today’s updates has me thinking GUILTY . Injecting air in the blood stream . collapsing happening on her night shifts then she moved to days and it followed but stopped at night . Injecting insulin . thats not hospital failings surely
Well I think a lot of opinions will change after today.

But you never know what the defence might come back with
 
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Air embolisms are so rare within paediatrics! I’ve never come across it. You would have to push a lot of air in? Naturally you get some bubbles in infusion lines and that’s fine but goodness that’s made me feel a bit sick
And for there to be more than 1 instance occur in a short time frame must set the alarm bells ringing
 
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IF all this can be proved, and it is still a big IF right now, then it seems like it was a very deliberate, determined and calculated campaign.
 
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Another method used by BA. The hairs are standing on me. I cannot begin to think that someone would do this with the cruelest of intention. My heart is so so heavy
 
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And for there to be more than 1 instance occur in a short time frame must set the alarm bells ringing
Tell me about it! The trust (you’d hope) would be sending out education/training on the topic to prevent it happening again. You’d be hyper alert to it
 
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If you were wanting to get away with serial killing in that kind of setting I imagine you would choose different methods and patterns to try and not make it noticeable.

If it turns out this is true and she’s guilty, can you imagine the horror of the staff and police as they started to uncover all of this? (In addition to the parents horror of course) I just feel sick reading this and the thought it might be true.
 
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