NSW nurse who triaged Pippa White before septic shock death tells inquest girl ‘didn’t meet criteria’ for rapid response
Two-year-old died after doctors assumed she had an acute viral illness, rather than bacterial infection that resulted in her death, a coronial inquest has heard
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The nurse who triaged a two-year-old girl who died of septic shock in regional New South Wales has told an inquest she doesn't think she would have activated a rapid paediatric sepsis pathway for her if even if she had access to the document at the time.
Pippa Mae White died on 13 June 2022, two months before her third birthday, after doctors at the hospitals in Cowra and Orange assumed she had an acute viral illness, rather than the bacterial infection that resulted in her death.
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