“Two vials of adrenaline and a vial of rocoronium” it was the medicines replenished in the team’s suitcase ICU who tried unsuccessfully resuscitate Georgina after the fatal stall on 29 January 2022according to the testimony of the second nurseEfstazias Nikas, who participated in the process.

Mrs. Nika testified at trial of Roula Pisprigou that when Mrs. Giorgi’s colleague’s shift ended, she was the one who joined the team of ICU doctors who tried to win the battle for the little girl. And this witness, with what she testified, ruled out any possibility that ketamine was given to Georgina by mistake, an issue that the defendant’s defense has raised with her questions.

“I was on the afternoon shift at the hospital. They informed me to stop for a passing stop to change my colleague Angeliki Giorgi. I saw the child intubated and the doctors gave him CPR. My colleague informed me that they found the child with mydriasis, palpitations and apnea. He handed over the suitcase to me without a vial of rocuronium (s.s. Mrs. Giorgi testified that rocuronium was given for Georgina’s sedation) and without a vial of adrenaline. She left and I replaced her. We have completed the resuscitation. The child didn’t make it,” the nurse told MOD.

The witness was asked by the president to describe the contents of the small suitcase with the medicines which the ICU team has ready at all times.

Chairman: Your colleague told us that there are two suitcases, one with equipment and the other with pharmaceutical substances. What’s in that last one?

Witness: There is the equipment case and the emergency meds case. In this little suitcase at the top are the narcotic drugs and it says “narcotics” at the top, below are the adrenaline and atropine.

Chairman: Are those belonging to the drug category in special packaging?

Witness: The whole suitcase has sheaths inside, the drugs that belong to the category of narcotics are at the top of the suitcase.

Chairman: When this team effort is over what is the procedure followed for the drugs that have been consumed from the suitcase?

Witness: The nurse who came down to the room after the call together with the shift manager open the suitcase and count one by one the ampoules of the narcotic drugs. If one is missing, it must be recorded in the patient. If a medicine is missing, it is written by the doctors in the child’s file and we replace it from the medicine stock.

Class Support Advocate Dimitris Georgakopoulos asked the nurse to respond what were the medicines they replenished in the suitcase after Georgina’s death.

“Two vials of adrenaline, a rocoronium and we made another adrenaline syringe which had also been consumed” said Mrs. Nika.

In her own testimony, the pediatric neurologist Stella Mouskou, who had examined Georgina, said that the results of the tests did not lead in any way to how the child would end up.

“A child with such extensive brain damage, the first thing you would think of is seizures, we’re leaning towards not having convulsions but again you can’t say for sure” said the witness stating how their first thoughts about Georgina’s episodes were that they were due to epilepsy, possibility, however, that was not confirmed.

Chairman: Assuming he had undiagnosed epilepsy with these self-resolving episodes. Does this lead to death?

Witness: No one dies from epilepsy, especially a child with a pacemaker and in the hospital. These children are very well cared for these days. They usually become adults. If there is any infection maybe…

The doctor emphasized that the treatment the child was receiving had completely shielded him while when asked by the prosecutor what would have happened if a dose of medication had been received, he said: “… he was taking two medications. Some doses of both would have to be missed for him to have a problem.”

In response to a question from the defensealso if she excludes the possibility, with the image she had of Georgina having died naturally, Mrs. Muscu underlined that “generally a child with spastic quadriplegia could end up” and he added that “but we did not expect from the image we had of this child to end up”.

Alexis Kougias: Did you find out if the child had an infection?

Witness: Having a simple infection, a severe pneumonia for example, is not a reason to end. We are talking about heavy infections to end up with.