Consultant 'regrets' not recommending post-mortem examination of baby, Lucy Letby trial hears
The consultant said she suspected the severe intestinal disorder, necrotising enterocolitis, was the cause of death.
Vital signs including heart-rate, oxygen levels and blood pressure, had previously been good, the court heard. "I didn't want to make what was a terrible situation any worse, so I didn't push, which is something I now regret," she said.Ms Letby's defence lawyer Ben Myers KC put it to her that it had been "precisely the situation" where a post-mortem examination would have been appropriate.
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