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- Daily Mail
Kiss of life: Mother was saved from dying from sepsis during childbirth after partner noticed something wrong when they locked lips
A mother was saved from dying from sepsis during childbirth after her partner noticed that something was wrong when they locked lips. Kerri-Louise Gilchrist gave birth to her daughter Layla, now 11 months, on August 3 last year, under terrifying and life-threatening circumstances. The 33-year-old was induced after her boyfriend, Hugh Marshall, 35, noticed her cold temperature and blue lips while kissing her. Sensing that something was gravely wrong, he immediately alerted doctors to the signs of sepsis and Ms Gilchrist was given an IV drip of antibiotics. Layla was cut out through an episiotomy and eventually delivered successfully with a ventouse. But in the process, Ms Gilchrist lost 2885ml, more than five pints, of blood. Having sat with her feet in stilts for three hours as she waited doctors to remove her placenta, she ultimately required two blood transfusions to save her life. Ms Gilchrist, a carer from Great Malvern, Worcestershire, said that her partner instinctively 'knew there was something wrong' after the pair locked lips. The mother-of-two, who described having 'such an easy' birth with her eight-year-old son Teddy, said that Mr Marshall had not given her a 'proper kiss', but instead a deliberately disguised 'temperature check'. Ms Gilchrist, a carer from Great Malvern, Worcestershire, said that her partner Hugh Marshall (both pictured) instinctively 'knew there was something wrong' after the pair locked lips. The mother-of-two said that Mr Marshall had given her a kiss as a disguised 'temperature check' Recalling the terrifying ordeal, she said: 'The nurses didn't notice anything until my partner said to them, you're not actually looking at your patient, her palms and lips are blue - that's a sign of sepsis. 'I'd been like that for a couple of hours at that point. Within two minutes of him saying that, I had 11 people in the room. 'You have somebody that's going to stand your ground for you. I was in no fit state to argue for myself, I couldn't care for myself. I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for Hugh.' Sepsis, a life-threatening condition caused by the body's extreme response to infection, results in up to 48,000 deaths in the UK each year, according to the UK Sepsis Trust. A leading cause of death in the UK, its main symptoms include a fever, rapid heart rate and breathing, feelings of confusion and difficulty breathing. Ms Gilchrist said she first noticed her waters breaking on July 28, 2024 when she was only 36 weeks and five days into pregnancy. But despite ringing Worcestershire Royal Hospital with her concerns, she was told twice over three days that she'd 'probably just weed'. After calling the hospital for a third time on August 1, having began to experience reduced mobility, she was eventually admitted. Ms Gilchrist said: 'They did the swab, came back and said, your waters are going. I'd been telling them that since Monday. 'I was induced at 7am on Friday August 2 morning for what ended up being a 36-hour labour until 11pm on Saturday night. 'I was pumped with all sorts because I couldn't stand the pain, so I had an epidural. I'd give birth to my son again every day, it was so easy, but with Layla it was so, so painful.' Adding that medical professionals 'didn't pay any attention to me' and that she only survived due to her partner, a technology professional, noticing the signs, Ms Gilchrist recalled: 'They started the IV drip of antibiotics at 8pm on Friday. 'My daughter was still inside me and they said they wouldn't give me a caesarean because there was somebody else waiting. 'The IV really hurt and I said that to them, it really hurts, it shouldn't hurt. They didn't pay any attention to me. The state of my arm, the vein exploded and caused a blood clot, and it caused tendon damage to two fingers.' Ms Gilchrist was eventually given an episiotomy when Layla started to go into stress. She said: 'After they pulled Layla out, they left me in the stilts for three hours because they hadn't got my placenta. They left me bleeding out. 'They weren't measuring the blood I was losing and told me it was normal.' Describing her partner as 'the sweetest man ever', Ms Gilchrist said that the doctors eventually realised that 'they were killing me', Having lost five pints of blood and requiring two blood transfusions, she then spent four nights in hospital recovering. Later suffering with arm pain due to the blood clot damage, she was unable to hold her daughter 'for a couple of months' and also could not breastfeed due to the trauma blocking her milk supply. Adding that an anesthetist said Ms Gilchrist had been 'pounding on heaven's door', the mother-of-two said medical professionals were 'surprised I'm alive'. She added: 'Doctors put it down as a pre-terminal event, which is the stage before death. 'I'm a stubborn bugger. At some point in there they said, how are you awake? Let alone talking to us right now. I said, I will shut my eyes when I know that I'm going to live. Until that point, I'm not going to shut my eyes. 'There was a point where I don't know if I died, but through the door I saw my mum who'd passed in April 2024. Staying awake was sheer willpower. Whenever I closed my eyes I saw my eight-year-old son, Teddy, and I'd force myself to open my eyes.' What are the key symptoms of sepsis? Sepsis, known as the 'silent killer', strikes when an infection such as blood poisoning sparks a violent immune response in which the body attacks its own organs. In the UK, it affects 245,000 people each year, with 48,000 sepsis-related deaths, according to the UK Sepsis Trust. If caught early enough, it's easily treated with intravenous antibiotics and fluids, but these must be given as soon as sepsis is suspected - it strikes with frightening speed and, for every hour of delay, a patient's chance of dying increases 8 per cent. The six signs of something potentially deadly can be identified by the acronym 'SEPSIS': Slurred speech or confusion. Extreme shivering or muscle pain. Passing no urine in a day. Severe breathlessness. Skin that's mottled or discoloured. Source: NHS UK. Lalya, who spent two additional days in hospital with an IV drip in case the sepsis had passed to her, is now doing 'really well', with Ms Gilchrist describing her as 'totally brilliant' and 'so funny'. But she said that her life-threatening ordeal served as a terrifying reminder that birth can often come with its challenges, adding that 'sometimes it's life or death'. Issuing a stark warning for others to 'trust your gut', Ms Gilchrist added: 'I know my body and I knew something was wrong.' 'Layla's fine, she's good - the one blessing in this. She had to stay in hospital for two days with an IV drip just in case sepsis had passed to her. But she's great. Developmentally, she's doing well. She's totally brilliant, so funny. Justine Jeffery, Director of Midwifery for Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, said the trust were 'sorry if Ms Gilchrist is unhappy with the care she received from us.' She added: 'We are committed to providing the highest quality care for all the families we look after. 'Ms Gilchrist was closely monitored by our team. It became clear that she would need to have her placenta safely removed under anaesthetic and in sterile conditions and she was transferred to an operating theatre as soon as one was available. 'Her blood loss was also closely monitored and she received a blood transfusion while in theatre and another one subsequently. She remained well and stable following this and was subsequently transferred to our postnatal ward before going home the following day. 'One of our senior midwives talked to Ms Gilchrist about the concerns she had around aspects of her care following the birth of her baby, and we would welcome the opportunity to meet with her again if there are any new or unresolved issues she wants to talk through with us.'
BBC News
11 minutes ago
- BBC News
Derby and Burton hospitals wants maternity restrictions removed
The trust in charge of Derby and Burton hospitals has asked the health watchdog to remove restrictions put on its maternity services after they were rated Care Quality Commission (CQC) served University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Trust (UHDB) with eight Section 31 notices following inspections at the Royal Derby Hospital and Queen's Hospital Burton in 2023 and a further five in said the CQC had now removed six of the eight restrictions it received in 2023 and the trust had made applications to remove the shows the mortality rate for newborns at both hospitals has been below the NHS average for more than 12 months. 'Working at pace' In 2023 the CQC identified major failings in maternity services at both hospitals and ordered the trust to urgently update training, improve cleanliness and ensure safe levels of commission utilised Section 31 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008, which gives it the powers to urgently alter or remove conditions of then the trust said it had been "working hard" to improve the quality of care and experience for women and babies through a dedicated improvement programmeIt said compliance against Saving Babies Lives, an evidence-based national maternity safety ambition had improved from 33% in September 2023 to 86% in June Noble, UHDB's director of midwifery, said: "While we know from our own safety data and from our engagement with women and families that we have made improvements, we are not complacent and are absolutely committed to continuing this work at pace." UHDB said the Section 31 restrictions from 2023 which had now been removed by the CQC were for effective system of fetal monitoring, fetal monitoring training and compliance, fresh eyes implementation, clinical skills training compliance, rates of haemorrhage and appropriate senior remaining two conditions from 2023 it has applied to have removed are assessment and management haemorrhage and audit and governance of the five conditions still in place from 2024 are co-ordinated care approach to maternity, visible effective medical leadership, birth centre neonatal equipment accessible and effective process for handovers of care and induction of labour.
Daily Mail
11 minutes ago
- Daily Mail
Man, 61, dies after being sucked into medical imaging machine by his metallic necklace
A man died after he was sucked into an MRI machine by his necklace. The 61-year-old, identified as Keith McAllister, succumbed to his injuries a day after the freak accident at a clinic in Westbury, New York, on Wednesday. Police said the man was dragged into the medical machine by his 'large metal chain' after reportedly defying orders to stay out of the room. The Nassau County Police Department said the man walked into the MRI room at the Nassau County Open MRI facility while a scan was in progress and was pulled into the machine. One witness told CBS News he had defied orders to stay out of the room after he heard his relative screaming from inside and got concerned. His wife, Adrienne Jones-McAllister, had just completed an MRI on her knee and asked a technician to bring her husband in to help her off the table. When McAllister entered the room - still wearing the 20lb metal chain his wife said he 'used for weight training' - the machine's powerful magnetic force suddenly pulled him in. 'I saw him walk toward the table and then the machine just snatched him,' Jones-McAllister recalled to News 12 Long Island. 'He went limp in my arms - and this is still pulsating in my brain.' She alleged that the technician allowed her husband into the room despite the visible chain, which had been worn on previous visits to the same facility. 'That was not the first time that guy had seen that chain. They'd had a conversation about it before,' she said. After the incident, McAllister suffered multiple heart attacks and later died from his injuries, she said. McAllister's stepdaughter, Samantha Bodden, echoed her mother's sentiment, blaming the technician for her stepfather's premature death. 'While my mother was laying on the table, the technician left the room to get her husband to help her off the table. 'He forgot to inform him to take the chain he was wearing from around his neck off when the magnet sucked him in,' Bodden wrote on Facebook Friday. She also pushed back against claims reported by 'several news stations' that McAllister was not authorized to be in the room. 'Several news stations are saying he wasn't authorized to be in the room, when in fact he was because the technician went and brought him into the room,' she wrote on a GoFundMe page organized to help cover burial expenses. Jones-McAllister told News 12 that she had called out to her husband after asking the technician to get him. She said the technician summoned him into the room, despite his wearing the heavy chain - an item they had even joked about on a previous visit, saying things like: 'Ooooooh, that's a big chain!' When he got close to her, she said, 'at that instant, the machine switched him around, pulled him in, and he hit the MRI.' 'I said: "Could you turn off the machine, call 911, do something - turn this damn thing off!"' she recalled, as tears ran down her face. 'He went limp in my arms.' She added that the technician tried to help her pull McAllister off the machine, but it was impossible. An investigation is continuing, but police have said there is no criminality involved and it appears to have been an accident. An official cause of death has yet to be released in the incident, but one staff doctor at North Shore University Hospital speculated on a potential cause. Dr Payal Sud told CBS: 'If this was a chain that was wrapped around the neck, I could imagine any kind of strangulation injuries that could happen. Asphyxiation, cervical spine injuries.' When undergoing an MRI procedure, patients are generally asked to remove all jewelry and piercings to remain safe. The machine generates strong magnetic fields and radio waves to create detailed internal images of the human body. The magnetic pull is so strong that it is capable of throwing a wheelchair across a room, according to the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering. When undergoing an MRI procedure, patients are generally asked to remove all jewelry and piercings to remain safe. Injuries and deaths from MRI machines, while rare, have happened in the past. In 2001, a six-year-old boy was killed at Westchester Medical Center in New York when an metal oxygen tank was pulled into the machine while he was being scanned. And in 2018 a man died in India when he entered an MRI room holding an oxygen tank.
