‘Beautiful’ six-year-old girl died when needle was wrongly pushed into an artery during ‘minor’ bone marrow biopsy procedure
A ‘beautiful’ six-year-old girl has died after a needle accidentally pierced a major artery during a ‘minor’ procedure. Amelia ‘Millie’ Ridout suffered ‘massive, catastrophic’ internal bleeding and died in June 2022 after she went to the world renowned Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge with a suspected blood condition. An inquest heard that even though a paediatric doctor…