Pippa White would ‘almost certainly’ have survived had she been given antibiotics in time, NSW inquest hears

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Two-year-old’s sepsis death would likely have been prevented if necessary treatment had occurred 12-18 hours earlier, doctor tells coronial inquest

A NSW coronial inquest into the death of two-year-old Pippa Mae White heard that doctors thought the toddler had a viral illness before her death in 2022.A NSW coronial inquest into the death of two-year-old Pippa Mae White heard that doctors thought the toddler had a viral illness before her death in 2022.

Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Buckmaster was not at Orange hospital when Pippa was admitted. The inquest heard his registrar, Dr Christopher Morris, examined her and called his boss for advice. He disputed having a conversation with a nurse who said, in her own statement to the inquest, that she “had a gut feeling about Pippa” and asked Morris if he was going to organise a chest X-ray for her.

Buckmaster told the inquest that he would have preferred Morris to escalate the case to him at this stage, or for him to have called him when Pippa’s clinical records showed she deteriorated around midnight, even though he didn’t know if this would have saved her.

 

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