Casey Nathan and Hayden Tukiri.
Scan might have detected condition, doctor tells inquest into deaths of woman and son.
A young mother-to-be who fainted while giving birth was having an amniotic embolism that would kill her not long after, a medical expert says.
And a condition she probably had that related to the fatal event might have been detected - but only if she was scanned earlier.
The inquest
into the 2012 deaths of Casey Nathan and her baby son, Kymani, whose life support was switched off two days later, heard how the 20-year-old fainted for about 30 seconds while in a birth pool at the Huntly Birthcare Centre as her labour became prolonged.
Canterbury District Health Board haematologist Dr Mark Smith said this was a "sentinel event" that set off her "catastrophic decline".
