embolus

An embolus can occur when amniotic fluid gets into the maternal bloodstream.

Continuing his closing speech for a second day, Mr Myers told Manchester Crown Court the "overarching theory of air embolus" was at the "heart" of this case.

She told the court that if the cause of death was established as air embolus, then it would have come from the person connecting the fluids, "which wasn't me".

He also went on to say that Dr Evans did not have any empirical research to back up his claims about the effects of air embolus.

Several months into the pandemic, doctors and scientists began to recognize that the coronavirus was causing blood clots, leading to strokes, heart attacks and emboli.