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An internal hospital policy at the time stated it wasn’t mandatory to take all six vital signs for patients deemed non-urgent, as Braes was considered in his first three presentations. Dr Devinda Arangala was asked on Tuesday if he now thought taking five minutes to take vital signs would have added to the “clinical picture” of Braes. “In retrospect, I think it would have been useful,” he told the NSW coroners court. “[At that time] I’d decide on which obs were most clinically relevant.” The inquest has heard it appears Braes’s presentation was unusual for an already unusual...

Alex Braes, from Broken Hill died from a deadly flesh-eating diseases in 2017 Inquest into the 18-year-old's sudden death reveals doctors missed vital signs   Young man complained of severe pain in his knee and had an infected toenail  Alex died 46 hours after he first arrived to hospital on September 20 in Sydney Doctor who examined the dying teen said he felt traumatised and heartbroken

Advertisement A doctor has described being blindsided and heartbroken by the death of a teenager who was sent home three times from Broken Hill Hospital, as he delivered a tearful apology to the patient’s family. Fronting the NSW Coroners Court on Tuesday, David Hooper revealed he was never interviewed by health officials when they conducted a formal investigation into the death of Alex Braes in 2017. Broken Hill teenager Alex Braes, who died of septic shock. Mr Braes, 18, was misdiagnosed as having a torn knee tendon while he was battling a life-threatening bacterial infection. By h...