LL Part 17: Another timeline

Sepsis, sepsis... EVERYWHERE!

Following on from the previous article in our Lucy Letby series here.

Today, thanks to a tweet by Professor Richard Gill, I was alerted to the following newspaper article.

Have a read… go on. I’ll wait…

A New Timeline

The article gives some interesting additional information to populate our Sepsis in the Intensive Care Nursery at CoCH timeline…

Can we see the pattern here yet?

What is the one word mentioned not only for every one of the first group of babies whose medical evidence we have combed through - babies that Lucy stood accused of harming and killing AND Baby Jacob?

Sepsis

There is an absolute plethora of medical literature describing how systemic infections with different bacterial pathogens can result in abscesses and bone infections - including Staphylococcus aureus (here, here and here), group B Streptococci, coagulase-negative Staphylococci, Listeria monocytogenes, Salmonella spp and Mycobacterium tuberculosis (here), Acinetobacter (here), Enterococci (here), Pseudomonas (here and here)…

You get the idea.

Suffice to say that a couple of the names in that list will already be familiar to my readers - as while all of the names in the list are potential hospital born (nosocomial) pathogens, several are common to the hospital wastewater (HWW) we know from the plumber’s testimony was leaking from old, pitted and overflowing pipework in the Intensive Care Nursery’s ceiling and under-floor spaces.

The picture I started to paint for you of the CoCH Intensive Care Nursery and Neonatal Unit being overrun with HWW pathogens and resulting infections, and how these more easily explain what was happening for these premature and poorly neonates, is really starting to take shape.

The more we populate the bigger picture on what was happening at the Countess of Chester Hospital at the time, and th subsequent decision to completely demolish the unit and rebuild from scratch, the more it is looking like a well orchestrated coverup of a combination of: (i) ineffectual and poorly supervised clinical interventionalism (negligent iatrogenesis); (ii) poor maintenance leading to hospital borne pathogenicity (nosocomial infection); (iii) insufficient nursing resources (practice outside guidelines); and (iv) negligent, toxic and decietful management.

Has a young nurse been thrown under the bus?

What do you think?

the next post in our series on the Lucy Letby Trial can be found here.

***

Erratum: For some reason I kept writing Baby James instead of Baby Jacob - probably because that is the name of the person seated about 5 feet to my left - D’oH. My apologies. I have now corrected this.

***