Baby deteriorated during four-minute transfer between hospitals

A baby who deteriorated during a four-minute transfer between Dublin hospitals died two days later, an inquest heard.

Nine-week-old Amanda Glazer of Corbally, Co Limerick, was considered stable for transfer when she left the Coombe Hospital on April 17 last year to go to Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin (OLCHC), but was in a critical condition on arrival. As doctors resuscitated her, they found the endotracheal tube through which she was being ventilated had become blocked.

She died two days later as a result of necrotising enterocolitis (NEC), a condition where portions of the bowel suffer tissue death.