A DOCTOR has denied suggestions that she and her medical team at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital made “an error in judgement” in her treatment of police shooting victim Jamar Maynard.
Facing questions from attorney at law David Comissiong about the procedures she carried out
on the 27-year-old when he was taken into the Accident & Emergency Department after the April 3, 2012 shooting, Dr Chantel Young-Boyce said the medical team followed Advanced Trauma Life Support guidelines.
The doctor told Coroner Manila Renee that when Maynard was brought in around 11:30 p.m. on April 3 last year with a gunshot wound to an arm, he had a Glasgow Coma Score that indicated he was in a coma.
During the course of tending to Maynard between the time he arrived at the hospital and 1:40 a.m. the next day when he was taken to surgery, Young-Boyce said she tried to stabilize him and her efforts included inserting a tube into his airway to do his breathing, resuscitating him twice and transfusing one unit of O-negative blood, as well as placing a compression bandage on the injured arm.
