An internal hospital policy at the time stated it wasn’t mandatory to take all six vital signs for patients deemed non-urgent, as Braes was considered in his first three presentations.
Dr Devinda Arangala was asked on Tuesday if he now thought taking five minutes to take vital signs would have added to the “clinical picture” of Braes.
“In retrospect, I think it would have been useful,” he told the NSW coroners court. “[At that time] I’d decide on which obs were most clinically relevant.”
The inquest has heard it appears Braes’s presentation was unusual for an already unusual condition.
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