Eleanor Neale
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Doctors just kind of put it down to severe dehydration due to his stomach bug and they moved on.
And the last of these four cases was a young boy named Patrick Elstone, who also stopped breathing on the Children's Ward of Grantham Hospital.
And it was Beverly Allitt that actually noticed that he'd stopped breathing and turned blue because he was hooked up to a load of monitors, but they didn't go off.
when he stopped breathing for some reason.
If it hadn't have been for Beverly Allitt noticing that this boy had stopped breathing and gone blue, he would have lost his life.
And so when she rushed to his bedside and helped to resuscitate him, his parents were so grateful to her.
She had saved their boy's life.
But the next child on the Grantham Children's Ward
Sadly wouldn't be so lucky.
15-month-old Claire Peck was admitted to the Children's Ward in late April for severe asthma.
In fact, she'd had this severe asthma all her life, and so she'd been in and out of the Children's Ward all her life.
So the staff knew her quite well, but this was the first time she'd been there
while nurse Beverly Allitt had been working.
On April 22nd, doctors pulled Claire's parents into an office just to discuss her treatment plan and they left Claire in the care of nurse Beverly Allitt.
Suddenly, out of nowhere, Claire went into cardiac arrest.
She turned blue and Beverly Allitt actually managed to resuscitate her all by herself.
She helped this baby recover.
And her parents were, of course, so relieved
but also so worried that like, where had that come from?
Now they were even more scared for their daughter.