Untrue Crime - The Lucy Letby Files

How (not) to diagnose "Air Embolus"


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Cross-examination of Dr Dewi Evans by Ben Myers KC (Defence barrister) on the topic of air embolism, voiced by AI.

Interjections by Mr Justice Goss.

Dr Dewi Evans was the lead prosecution expert witness. He diagnosed that many of the babies in the indictment died from an air embolism caused by deliberate injection of air into their venous catheters. 

He claims to have reached this diagnosis initially through a process of elimination ("diagnosis of exclusion").

For some reason he incorrectly refers to air embolism as "air embolus".

Air embolism:  A blood vessel blockage caused by one or more bubbles of air in the circulatory system. 

Air embolus: That bubble of air which may or may not lead to air embolism.

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