Baby Christopher: An avoidable medical tragedy RTE1 Update

Baby Christopher:

An avoidable

medical tragedy

Update

Parents of Baby Christopher talking to Brendan O’Connor on RTE1

Saturday 28 AUG • 28 MINS • BRENDAN O’CONNOR RTE1 Podcast

Rebecca Price and Pat Kiely talk about the tragic loss of their baby.

RTE1 Podcast HERE

Irish Eaminer

SAT, 26 JUN, 2021 – 06:30

MICHAEL CLIFFORD

Pat Kiely and Rebecca Price tell Michael Clifford about the loss of their much-anticipated baby boy, their anger at how they were treated and their hope to prevent another family suffering the same loss.

“I had been in touch with Soft, the charity for parents of children with Edwards syndrome and I had got a fair bit of information on it”

Harmony Test

“the test, while marketed at providing 99% accuracy, is only designed to identify a “high risk” of the presence of the trisomys. A follow-up invasive test is required for confirmation.

The devastated couple were asked to come in the following Monday for a chorionic villus sampling (CVS) test, which would provide a definitive diagnosis.

The CVS is one of two tests designed for this purpose. The other is amniocentesis, which is considered to be more accurate.”