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Hospital used all liver protecting medication on Ian and Heather Wilkinson, court hears
Adriana Mageros
Leongatha Hospital used its entire supply of a special liver protecting medication while treating Ian and Heather Wilkinson for suspected mushroom poisoning, a court has been told.
The next witness giving evidence is Cindy Munro, a registered nurse, who was working as the deputy director of nursing at Leongatha Hospital on July 31, 2023.
The court has previously heard Ian and Heather were admitted to Leongatha Hospital following the beef wellington lunch on July 29, 2023.
Giving her evidence, Ms Munro said she spoke to Ms Patterson when she represented to the urgent care centre at Leongatha Hospital after she had earlier left the building.
The nurse spoke to Erin and introduced herself, and mentioned she was going to start treatment which included cannulating her and giving her a medication called NAC (N-acetylcysteine), which is commonly used to protect the liver.
“We didn’t have enough NAC,” Ms Munro said.
“We had used all our supply… for Ian and Heather, so we didn’t have enough of the same medication.”
The court heard arrangements were made for the medication to be sourced from Korumburra Hospital.
Ms Patterson was told by the nurse there would be a delay in her receiving that treatment.
Under cross-examination by defence barrister Colin Mandy SC, Ms Munro confirmed the hospital had used all of its NAC supply on Heather and Ian.
“We used five times the amount we would usually use for someone,” Ms Munro told the court.
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