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Children’s Health Defense (CHD) obtained access to the medical records of the 6-year-old Texas girl with measles who died. The girl's family specifically asked to share and report on the findings, as a warning for other parents.
So this morning, on CHD.TV, Polly Tommey, CHD Chief Scientific Officer Brian Hooker, Dr. Pierre Kory and Dr. Ben Edwards did exactly that.
Dr. Hooker explained that the girl had actually been recovering from the measles. The pediatrician had given cough syrup and recommended Tylenol.
After the rash started fading, the girl was having problems with a cough and breathing, so her parents took her to the ER where antibiotics were administered.
The girl showed no progress after two and a half days, ended up in the ICU and died 36 hours later.
Dr. Kory, an expert in emergency care and pulmonology, reviewed the girl's records.
"This case was tragic," explained Dr. Kory. "But she did not die of measles by any stretch of the imagination. In fact, she died of a pneumonia."
"But it gets worse than that because she didn't really die of the pneumonia. She died of a medical error. And that error was a completely inappropriate antibiotic. It was an insufficient antibiotic," asserted Dr. Kory. "It's difficult to pinpoint blame unless you know exactly what the organism was. And in this case, we did know what the organism was. She died of mycoplasma."
Mycoplasma is an extremely common community acquired organism that causes pneumonia.
Dr. Kory explained that when someone is admitted to the ER with pneumonia, you put them on antibiotics that you think will cover the most common organisms.
"And that's why this case is absolutely enraging. It's infuriating because she died because she got an inappropriate antibiotic," charged Dr. Kory who explained exactly what should have happened in terms of treatment, but didn't. "It's a grievous error, and it's an error which led to her death."
But then Dr. Kory said it got worse.
"Although this child was declining, they never changed what they were doing until the test came back from mycoplasma," he said. "This is where it gets really troubling because as an ICU doctor, when I need a new antibiotic... it should arrive within at least two hours. And from my review of the records, the antibiotic was ordered 11pm, approximately 11pm, and as far as I can tell, it was not administered until 9am the next morning."
So that meant the girl declined for several days on the wrong antibiotics and then had to wait another 10 hours to get the right antibiotic once they realized, and by that time the girl was already on a ventilator and died less than 24 hours later.
"She died rather catastrophically. As she was declining, she was in a state of what's called shock and she needed medicines to maintain her blood pressure and suddenly her blood pressure crashed and she arrested," explained Dr. Kory. "And that kind of suddenness in an infection suggests some other cardiac event. And in a child like that, with that amount of inflammation, infection and disturbances in the bloodstream, I can only surmise that she died of a catastrophic pulmonary embolism."
Dr. Kory lamented how the media ran with outrage over the measles and claimed "everyone needs to get vaccinated" when the truth is the girl died of a "tragic error of an insufficient and incorrect antibiotic regimen on admission."
Dr. Edwards agreed that it was a tragic, fatal mistake.
He spoke directly with the family about the girl's death, and he's also the treating physician for the family's other children.
He said when the news broke about the girl's death, he had been in the middle of an interview with a reporter who seemed almost giddy that the "first measles death" had just been announced. He called the reporter's reaction "disgusting" and noted that the family just wanted to set the record straight to help other families who may be in a similar situation.
"There's potential risk of measles, you know, complications and death. There's potential risk, complications and death from MMR," said Dr. Edwards who believes we need to have a truthful conversation about the potential adverse reactions from the MMR vaccine.
Meanwhile, Dr. Edwards reports the family's other children have recovered from the measles.
