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Milk aspiration was a factor in the death of a three-month-old Donegal baby who became "inconsolable" after a meal.
Baby Cormac Lafferty was born with conbad heart disease in June 2016. He had open-heart surgery one month after birth, which allowed him to direct the blood from the heart to the lungs.
After an open-heart operation, Cormac, whose state of Tetralogy of Fallot had been diagnosed, returned home to Castlefin, where he would have prospered alongside his twin Callum.
His mother, Anne-Marie Lafferty, returned to the Notre-Dame de Crumlin Hospital with Cormac in September 2016 for a check-up. He was then admitted due to concerns about his oxygen saturation.
A nurse woke the baby to feed him at 4 am on September 10th. He did not finish the meal, became unstable and began to "cry inconsolably".
Morphine was administered to help him relax and at 4:45 am, the staff asked for help because his oxygen saturation rate dropped to 55% and then to 33%.
At 0620, the infant's condition deteriorated rapidly when its oxygen saturation dropped to 20%.
Dr. Damien Kenny, a pediatric cardiologist, said during the investigation that the desaturations of Cormac were intermittent rather than persistent and that the medical team "did not have a very clear idea of the cause of this".
Cormac pbaded away before noon on September 10, 2016.
The investigation revealed that the cause of death was related to the baby's heart malformation and the aspiration of milk.
The case continues.
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