Unanswered Questions for a Family's Tragic Loss The recent coroner's findings that a newborn's death was unpreventable have left her family devastated, refusing to accept the verdict.
Thea Flaskett died hours after birth from an undiagnosed heart defect. A routine morphology scan at 20 weeks of pregnancy failed to detect the defect, despite being a supposedly reliable diagnostic tool.
This is not the first time concerns have been raised about the accuracy of prenatal scans in detecting congenital anomalies.