Triage nurse tells inquest into WA girl’s sepsis death that exhausted staff were ‘under pressure’

Jacqueline Taylor tells court she was running desk alone with 96 patients on afternoon Aishwarya Aswath presented

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A nurse who inspected Aishwarya Aswath at a Perth hospital has told an inquest into the girl's death that her triage score was appropriate but says time constraints prevented a more thorough assessment.

Seven-year-old Aishwarya died of sepsis in April last year, hours after presenting to the Perth children's hospital emergency department with a fever and unusually cold hands.

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