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Interview With Dr. Martyn Pitman On Lucy Letby Questions

In a viewer-questions format, Dr Martyn Pitman explains why obstetric history is clinically indispensable to any assessment of neonatal death, and why the NCA's recommendation for a multidisciplinary panel including a consultant obstetrician was correct. He provides detailed obstetric analysis of specific cases: Child C had severe intrauterine growth restriction with reversed end-diastolic flow diagnosed at 18 weeks gestation, making a poor outcome expected rather than suspicious; Child D's antibiotic delay after premature rupture of membranes is described as indefensible even by the Trust's own legal counsel; the triplets' subcapsular haematomas are consistent with delivery trauma in a monochorionic pregnancy. Pitman announces that Jim Thornton and two other obstetricians and maternal-foetal medicine consultants have been appointed to Lucy Letby's new defence team to review the obstetric evidence.

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Dr Martyn Pitman

Child C had reversed end-diastolic flow at 18 weeks. That is one of the most ominous findings in foetal medicine — it means the placenta is failing severely. A poor outcome for that baby was not suspicious, it was almost inevitable.
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Dr Martyn Pitman

The Trust's own legal counsel described the antibiotic delay in Child D as indefensible. Sixty hours after premature rupture of membranes without antibiotics — that baby was already infected before anyone even looked at the neonatal chart.
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Dr Martyn Pitman

Jim Thornton is one of the most eminent obstetricians in the country. The fact that he has joined the defence team and said the same things I have been saying independently gives me confidence that what we have been arguing is correct.
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