Lucy Letby, 34, denies a charge of attempted murder
Jurors in the trial of former nurse Lucy Letby heard medics attempted to revive a very premature baby moments after she allegedly attacked the infant.
By the time she allegedly targeted Child K, the then nurse had already murdered five children and attempted to murder three others on various dates between June 2015 and October 2015, the court has heard. She was also convicted last year of the attempted murders of twin boys in April 2016; an attempt to murder another boy in June 2016; and the murders of two triplet boys later that month.
Dr James Smith, a locum registrar in paediatrics at the Countess of Chester Hospital at the time, told the jurors Child K needed assistance to breath in the first minutes of life, when she was considered 'dusky and floppy'. He told the jurors the resuscitation 'went well' and added: "At no point did I feel anything was concerning or anything had gone wrong or I needed to hand over to my consultant to intubate this baby. If I had seen trauma in the airways and bleeding, I would have done that."
Dr Smith said he himself then took two attempts to successfully re-intubate the baby as he had already done it successfully previously. The infant was given a one-off dose of morphine to help the process, the jurors were told.Cross-examined by Ben Myers KC, defending Letby, Dr Smith said it was 'not unusual' for very premature babies to be delivered at the Countess of Chester Hospital, a 'level two' unit, rather than a specialist 'tertiary' hospital.
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