The lawyer appearing on behalf of Aishwarya Aswath’s parents has asked a doctor who treated the seven-year-old if he did everything he possibly could to save her life.

A senior doctor has told the coroner’s court he helped put a drip into the back of Aishwarya’s right hand when she arrived in the resuscitation bay at Perth Children’s Hospital.

6PR reporter Anne Naylor told Liam Bartlett on 6PR Mornings this was a case no one had ever encountered before.

Press PLAY below to hear her report on Mornings

He was part of a team of medical staff working on her – and tried to get her breathing back on track, before she suddenly vomited and went into cardiac arrest.

Sepsis was later revealed to be the cause of her illness.

The trainee registrar was asked what steps he took to be aware of such an infection, telling the court “you keep at the forefront of your mind… this could be sepsis”.

He explained the emergency department came across the condition a couple of times a week, but he’d personally never seen a case like Aishwarya’s before.

The doctor also stressed: “I have no doubt at all we did everything we could to try to save her.”

The inquest will continue until Friday.