Pippa White would ‘almost certainly’ have survived had she been given antibiotics in time, NSW inquest hears

Two-year-old's sepsis death would likely have been prevented if necessary treatment had occurred 12-18 hours earlier, doctor tells coronial inquest

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A senior doctor at the regional New South Wales hospital where a two-year-old girl died of septic shock says he would have activated the sepsis treatment pathway six hours earlier had he known her condition was deteriorating, an inquest has heard.

Prof Adam Buckmaster said Pippa Mae White may still have died because she already had overwhelming sepsis", although she almost certainly" would have survived had she been treated with antibiotics 12 or 18 hours earlier.

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