The doctor who attended Warren Mottley has denied that his kidneys failed sometime after his laparoscopic operation. Dr Courtenay Chase said Mottley was exhibiting decreased urine output but this was a feature that followed laparoscopic surgery. “During my time with Mr Mottley, his respiratory rate was normal. He had a normal temperature and these symptoms were not in keeping with sepsis,” she said. The doctor was spending a second day …
Doctor testifies Mottley had a collapsed lung, not sepsis
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Stressing that she could not make a diagnosis of sepsis from a blood test, a doctor admitted that the dramatic reduction in Warren Mottley’s white blood cell count could have occurred because of the infection. Dr Courtenay Chase further told the Coroner’s Inquest she was not aware that Mottley had died from sepsis. However, she conceded that only one doctor had performed surgery on Mottley before he was diagnosed with …
A senior nurse at Surgical Solutions Inc. on Monday admitted that while the company had the necessary staff and facilities to deal with emergencies, it did not have access to a 24-hour ambulance service.That was the evidence given by Jasmine Durant when the Coroner’s Inquest into the death of Warren Mottley continued in the Supreme Court.Mottley, the brother of Prime Minister Mia Mottley, died at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) on June 29, 2021, from sepsis.Durant, a nurse supervisor at Surgical Solutions, revealed to the court that she was the person who called an ambulance for Mottley on June 27, while he was still a patient at that medical institution.She said she only did so out of an abundance of caution as she did not categorise Mottley’s condition as an emergency.Durant said she received an update on his condition via a phone call in which she learned he had been experiencing low blood pressures at “minutes to 9” that morning.
The chairman of the Barbados Medical Council admitted that while doctors can open surgical facilities without the authority of the Barbados Medical Council, the Ministry of Health still has the last say. However, consultant surgeon Mr Selwyn Ferdinand is of the opinion there should be criteria established to govern the opening of operating theatres outside the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH). He made the comments, in answer to questions from Sir …
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