@drcmday watched GMC v Bawa-Garba in High Court and has written a blog about the way the GMC chose to argue the case against a junior doctor convicted of manslaughter for a medical error in the context of multiple system failures & errors from other staff
http://54000doctors.org/blogs/whose-interests-are-the-gmc-really-trying-to-serve-in-the-bawa-garba-case.html …
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Replying to @54kdoctors @drcmday
Quick point: No mention of mistakenly stopping CPR? Longer point: GMC have no influence over Dr
#BawaGarba's lawyers, so surely all this mitigation will have been raised in her defence during original trial? Were the jury just unmoved?5 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
The stopped CPR was a mess, but clearly said in the court documents to not have affected outcome Sadly when arrest occurs in context of sepsis or any other critical illness CPR rarely works Medics concerned mitigating Trusts report on system errors was not presented to court
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And we're sure the points raised in the Trust's report, (if not the report itself), were not also raised in court by her legal team, are we? I struggle to understand why not tbh, if so. 1/2
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Replying to @C7RKY @GrumpyOldDoc and
Re CPR, I appreciate what was found in court & I defer to your knowledge re sepsis etc. We know this finding will be medical expert guided tho & I just can't get the old line 'The procedure went well but unf the pt died' out of my head when I read it. May be unfair of me. 2/2
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CPR and Defibrillation works well in Coronary Care patients, on a monitor, who have a temporary electrical problem after an otherwise survivable heart attack Sadly it usually does not work in patients dying from other non-survivable critical illnesses.
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Then it sounds like it is unfair of me. Forgive me - it's a pattern of language that's difficult to ignore once you've been on the receiving end of it. Enough said...
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