With 12 hours left to live, the treatment of the Broken Hill teenager was handed over to the chief medical officer of the Royal Flying Doctors Service. He today told an inquest into his death about his final hours.
An inquest into how a Broken Hill teenager died from an infected toenail has heard his condition deteriorated rapidly in his final hours.A senior doctor told the inquest the 18-year-old was "compensating well", making it harder to assess him
Randall Greenberg today spoke at length in the New South Wales Coroners Court about Mr Braes' condition, and issues which prevented the RFDS from transferring him to Sydney or Adelaide sooner. The veteran clinician with 36 years experience, believes in hindsight there are a number of "ifs" now that he was "aware of the outcome", including not taking Alex to Adelaide instead of Sydney.'He fell off the cliff'Dr Greenberg told the inquest he was in a "relatively good" condition, for someone who was critically ill.
It was a call made far more difficult due to a lack of available pilots at the RFDS base in Broken Hill that day.