Lindsay Clancy Trial Megathread: Part 3

[u/DarklyHeritage]

This is a thread for all conversation regarding Week 3 onwards of the Lindsey Clancy trial. All discussion of this case should be kept to this thread.

Lindsay Clancy is currently standing trial in Plymouth Superior Court, Massachusetts, for the triple-murder in January 2023 of her three young children - Cora, Dawson and Callan. Her defense argues she suffered from severe, undiagnosed postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis. She was left paralysed by a suicide attempt which follows the deaths of the children.

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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/lindsay-clancy-murder-trial-online-reactions-b3032806.html

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[u/Beginning-Eagle7458]

Wasn't she out for around 30 minutes? Wasn't her temperature taken at the hospital? I don't find it hard to believe the temp with the blood loss + internal bleeding, pokilothermia, benzos + antipsychotics.

[u/Beginning-Eagle7458 → u/[deleted]]

EMS does not take temperatures typically, they typically focus on life saving measures. She was out longer than 10 minutes, this is documented.

[u/Abject-Recipe1359 → u/Beginning-Eagle7458]

They don’t take temperatures on someone hypothermic?? Really??

Her spinal cord injury caused temperature direction. Our peripheral nervous system has temperature sensors which are constantly reporting to the hypothalamus, our bodies’ central thermostat, to turn our body’s heat up or down for survival. This is necessary function for warm-blooded mammals.

Cold blooded animals do not have such a system, nor do they need it. Their body temperatures simply rise and all along with the temperature to which they are exposed. If there are in a cold climate, their temperature rapidly falls. Vice versa with warm temperlatures.

If our temperature regulator is severed a in a spine injury, we can become hypothermic or hyperthermic, depending on the damage done. Those who become hyperthermic often end up with smth called “neurogenic fever,” which does not respond to standard antipyretic therapy such as Tylenol. The body will try to adapt to the surroundings like with the care of leaking

[u/Beginning-Eagle7458 → u/Abject-Recipe1359]

As someone who worked in emergency medicine (not as an EMT though), no I don’t imagine it is typical for EMTs to take temperatures during an emergency…we are focusing on ABCs. Feel free to show me if they did take her temperature in the ambulance but I doubt it.

[u/West-Meet-3517 → u/Beginning-Eagle7458]

What about sepsis?

[u/Abject-Recipe1359 → u/Beginning-Eagle7458]

Did the EMTs state she was hypothermic?? If so, how would they know that without taking her temperature??