Tragic delay in 999 response after new-born suffers cardiac arrest, inquest hears

Amelia Pill with Wyllow-Raine Swinburn. Wyllow-Raine Swinburn died aft her mum spent 7 minutes waiting for idiosyncratic to reply a 999 call, a erstwhile proceeding was told. (Image: Leigh Day SWNS)

In a harrowing ordeal, a grief-stricken parent screamed "Why are they not answering the f**king phone? " aft being incapable to link with 999 portion her newborn babe suffered from a 'prolonged play of cardiac arrest'.

The tragic series of events began aft Wyllow-Raine Swinburn was calved astatine John Radcliffe Hospital connected September 27, 2022, and took a devastating crook soon aft being discharged location connected the evening of September 29. The infant's beingness abruptly ended pursuing her illness successful the aboriginal greeting of September 30.

Reports uncover that her mother, Amelia Pill, faced an agonising seven-minute hold arsenic she desperately tried to get done to exigency services.

During this time, Wyllow-Raine's household valiantly administered CPR for 40 minutes successful a hopeless bid to prevention her, awaiting the accomplishment of paramedics astatine their residence, accusation provided to the Oxford Coroner's Court during 2023 indicated. Senior Coroner Darren Salter has since postponed the inquest to unafraid further evidence.

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A pre-inquest reappraisal into the decease of the tragically young three-day-old took spot astatine Oxford Coroner's Court connected Wednesday, October 2, as reported by the Sun. 

On the greeting of the tragedy, erstwhile Wyllow-Raine seemed to person ceased breathing, her parent dialled for an ambulance astatine 4.38am, but the household endured a distressing hold of implicit 7 minutes earlier the telephone was picked up by the ambulance service, reports the Mirror.

Amelia jolted her member with her cries: "Why are they not answering the f**king phone? ".

Meanwhile, the baby's grandma Anna Fisher, who had been downstairs tending to the dogs, rushed upstairs upon proceeding Amelia's despairing shouts: "No-one is coming, no-one is coming."

Dr Darren Farrell concluded that her decease was owed to abrupt unexpected decease successful infancy, which remains unexplained. (Image: ilbusca)

An ambulance arrived astatine a household residence astatine 5.09am, tragically implicit fractional an hr aft the exigency telephone was placed. The infant, Wyllow-Raine, was rushed to John Radcliffe Hospital but was pronounced dormant soon upon arrival.

A thorough post-mortem introspection recovered nary abnormalities with Wyllow-Raine, including immoderate exceptionally uncommon conditions. Consequently, paediatric pathologist Dr Darren Farrell concluded that her decease was owed to abrupt unexpected decease successful infancy, which remains unexplained.

In the aftermath of this tragedy, Oxford University NHS Foundation Trust conducted an interior review. The probe suggested that Wyllow-Raine had apt experienced an extended cardiac apprehension anterior to the exigency telephone being made.

The enquiry determined that the effect clip for the 999 telephone and the consequent accomplishment of the ambulance were "not apt to beryllium influenced by the clip taken to reply the 999 telephone and the accomplishment of the ambulance".

The broad inquest is scheduled to proceed connected December 2-3, 2024.