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Chest infection killed child: expert
BY BARB PACHOLIK, LEADER-POST JANUARY 26, 2011
A three-year-old child in foster care died from a highly treatable chest infection, a coroner's inquest heard Tuesday.
"He would have had a very good chance of survival," forensic pathologist Dr. Elizabeth Brooks-Lim testified. The chances of surviving such an infection are 90 to 95 per cent with medical treatment, she said, adding antibiotics would normally take care of it.
But the illness in A.P.G., who can only be identified by initials, went undetected. He was found dead in his crib at a Pense foster home on Dec. 17, 2009....
Read more: http://www.leaderpost.com/health/Ch...child+expert/4169050/story.html#ixzz1C9xKVBpb
BY BARB PACHOLIK, LEADER-POST JANUARY 26, 2011
A three-year-old child in foster care died from a highly treatable chest infection, a coroner's inquest heard Tuesday.
"He would have had a very good chance of survival," forensic pathologist Dr. Elizabeth Brooks-Lim testified. The chances of surviving such an infection are 90 to 95 per cent with medical treatment, she said, adding antibiotics would normally take care of it.
But the illness in A.P.G., who can only be identified by initials, went undetected. He was found dead in his crib at a Pense foster home on Dec. 17, 2009....
Read more: http://www.leaderpost.com/health/Ch...child+expert/4169050/story.html#ixzz1C9xKVBpb