Deputy State Coroner Joan Baptie has recommended using mobile phone videos filmed by Pippa Mae White's mother, Annah White, during her daughter’s final 18 hours at two hospitals in New South Wales, to train junior doctors. The coroner found that Pippa died of sepsis and pneumonia due to delayed diagnosis and treatment, which was "wholly preventable." The videos depict the toddler’s condition deteriorating between June 12 and June 13, 2022. Baptie emphasized that these videos are crucial for understanding what led to Pippa's death and can help improve early detection of sepsis in children.
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Two-year-old Pippa Mae White died of sepsis and pneumonia in June 2022, after being transferred from Cowra hospital to Orange hospital in New South Wales, Australia. Deputy State Coroner Joan Baptie concluded the toddler's death was "wholly preventable" due to delayed diagnosis and treatment. Ms. White, Pippa’s mother, filmed nine videos of her daughter's condition during the critical period, which could be used by the Clinical Excellence Commission for training junior doctors on early sepsis recognition and intervention. The coroner recommended that these mobile phone videos should serve as educational tools to help prevent similar fatalities in the future.
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Two-year-old Pippa White died of sepsis and pneumonia after being transferred from Cowra hospital to Orange hospital in 2022.
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A coroner has recommended videos filmed by the mother of the dying toddler be used to train junior doctors to recognise sepsis.
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The videos will be submitted to the state's Clinical Excellence Commission for training purposes.
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Mobile phone videos of a dying toddler recorded by her mother during her care at two regional NSW hospitals could be used to train junior doctors to avoid other "preventable" deaths, an inquest has found.
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Deputy State Coroner Joan Baptie made the recommendation today while delivering her findings from an inquest into the death of two-year-old Pippa Mae White at the Orange hospital in 2022.
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Judge Baptie said that while the toddler died of "natural causes due to sepsis and bacterial pneumonia", it was due to "delayed diagnosis and treatment" and was "wholly preventable".
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Annah White filmed nine short videos of her daughter's deteriorating condition from the time they presented at Cowra hospital on the afternoon of June 12 2022 until Pippa's death 18 hours later at Orange.
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Ms White told the ABC she and her husband Brock were "so on board" with the recommendation.
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"If it can help prevent the outcome that happened to Pippa [from happening] to other children, we're all for it," she said.
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I think the more junior doctors and nurses that can witness the videos and see that story of Pippa and the outcome, it can help in the future with early detection, earlier implementation of the sepsis pathway and a better outcome.
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That's what we were hoping for."
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The inquest heard Pippa's symptoms should have triggered the "paediatric sepsis pathway" — a protocol that escalates medical oversight and shortens the time between reviews — but this did not happen in a timely manner.
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Judge Baptie said the videos "proved to be invaluable" and were described by experts giving evidence as "striking" and showing "a clearly septic child".
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"Without that primary source material, it is highly likely this inquest would have come to different conclusions," she said.
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The inquest heard that Pippa's family had pushed for a coronial inquest after Orange Hospital determined her death was not reportable because it was not an "unexpected outcome".
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Ms White said an experience with Pippa's twin Leo, who suffered a cardiac arrest at a young age, pushed her to write to the coroner asking for an investigation.
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"Leo's been in an ICU environment and … I saw how well they worked and how great that outcome was," she said.
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"Then I experienced, with Pippa, the opposite … it went so horribly wrong.
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My instincts were saying, 'This is not OK.
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We need to do something about it.'"
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Judge Baptie said the Western NSW Local Health District supported the recommendation.
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She said the videos should be provided to the Clinical Excellence Commission to "develop training for junior doctors working in emergency departments or paediatric wards".
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For Ms White, the end of the inquest has meant the start of a new chapter advocating for better healthcare.
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"We can get into the actual fixing part now and implementing some changes," she said.
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"If you ever met Pippa, you would know it was easy to mother her and it's easy to fight for justice and to get some change in her honour.
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We're always surrounded in Pippa's love and she's talked about and she'll be missed forever and never forgotten."
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