Erin Patterson Murder Trial: Intensive specialist says that the sole survivor of mushrooms was “very narrow” to die for lunch – when it happened

After a very short day in court, we will now complete the live reporting this week via Erin Patterson’s triple murder process.

You can read about what happened today with the court reporter Kristian Silva:

The ABC Alexandra Alvaro was in court when professor of intensive care, Professor Stephen Warrillow, gave evidence.

He led the jury through the conditions of Don and Gail Patterson as well as Heather and Ian Wilkinson when they arrived from the Dandenong Hospital in the Austin Hospital and how they were treated.

Here is how Alex summarized it on the ABC News Channel, shortly before Court ended for the day:

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At the beginning of the process, we caught up with the people of Morwell.

The city is about two hours southeast of Melbourne and was better known for coal power and an old paper mill.

But it is now in the center of an international media mode.

Last week the attempt led a deep immersion in the fungusification.

The mycologist Tom May led the jury on a tour of Victoria and the world and shows the many places where fatal – and completely safe – wild mushrooms grow.

Here is how the court reporter Kristian Silva summarized it:

It was only a short court meeting in Morwell today.

The first witness was Professor Stephen Warrilow, director of intensive care at Austin Health, where the guests of lunch were treated.

Then we heard very briefly from Shamen Fox-Henry, digital expert at Victoria Police, which was on the stand for a minor clarification from yesterday’s evidence.

We learned the following this morning:

1. 1.Don Patterson received a liver transplant in Austin Hospital, but Professor Warrillow says that he had “become relentlessly worse” and it became clear that he was dying.
2. 2.Gail Patterson and Heather Wilkinson were both uncomfortable to undergo surgery, and so did not receive a transplant.
3. 3.Ian Wilkinson came to death “very close”, but began to slowly improve after almost a week of treatment.
4. 4.Professor Warrillow says that the hospital has no specific test for the Amaninta fungal poisoning, so that the diagnosis of the Pattersons and Wilkinson diseases was based on factors, including their consumption of mushrooms, their symptoms and tests for other causes such as viruses were negative.
5. 5.Professor Warrillow says The treatments for Amanita poisoning are not 100 percent effective, and there is a high mortality rate even with optimal care.

The court was postponed for the week.

It heard a little more than an hour of proof this morning and is said to return on Monday.

Shamen Fox-Henry is the witness, who led us through the group chat messages, pictures from Erin Patterson’s tablet and other data including searches.

Prosecutor Jane Warren attributes him through the cell phone report.

They clarify data and times within the report.

We are back from the break.

The defense has no questions to Professor Warrillow, so he ended his time in court.

Shamen Fox-Henry is covered with the Victoria police in the Victoria police.

The court stays during a break.

We have just heard a lot of evidence of the conditions and medical treatments that were given to the midday guests in the intensive care unit of Austin Hospital.

For refreshing about the people and schedules at the center of the process, my colleague Judd Boaz has this explaner:

Professor Warrillow is asked to explain why the Amanita diligence diagnosis was determined on the basis of the mushroom consumption and no other cause.

He reveals that the hospital had no test that specifically identified the Amanita toxin.

He says the treatments are not 100 percent effective and there is a high mortality rate even with optimal care.

The Court is now taking a break.

Ian came on the same day as Heather with similar symptoms, including acute liver failure.

Professor Warrillow says he is in the ventilation and is of crucial importance.

He says until August 2 that Ian was extremely uncomfortable and worsened and needed support for his cycle.

On August 4, the acid in Ian’s blood was higher.

Professor Warrillow says that Ian slowly improved from August 5 and was not ventilated until August 14th.

He was finally sent to the Heidelberg Hospital and released.

Professor Warrillow says that he was “very close” to die.

Professor Warrillow says that Heather was transferred to Don and Gail on August 1 with very similar symptoms.

He says she is sick with several organ failure and has similar treatments to the Pattenson.

She quickly deteriorated by August 2.

He says there were discussions about a liver transplant, but it was too uncomfortable.

He says it is “very obvious that this was not able to survive.”

She died on August 4th.

According to Professor Warrillow, Gail was broadcast on July 31, also ill with acute liver failure.

She received the same treatments as Don.

The next day, she quickly deteriorated in the advanced stages of several organ failure and an advanced shock.

Professor Warrillow says her liver no longer worked until August 2.

“She was on everything we had,” he says.

He said they looked at a liver transplant, but no behavior because the senior specialists believed that it was too sick for surgery.

He says the blood has stopped flowing to Gails intestine and this section had died.

She died on August 4th.

Professor Warrillow says in the following days that Don worsened.

Its distribution was increasingly affected and his bowel movements worked.

Don had a liver transplant, but Professor Warrillow said that he had “become relentlessly worse” and it became clear that he was dying.

He died on August 5 with several organ failure.

Professor Warrillow says that a number of tests were carried out to try to find other possible causes apart from the Amanita fungal poisoning such as viruses, but no one else were found.

He says Don has received more dosed activated carbon to try to remove the Amanita poisoning from the intestine and other medication in order to counteract the effects of the poison.

He described the treatment as “many very intensive treatment”.

He said Don worsened despite very aggressive treatment.

“We were very, very concerned about his progress, he got worse,” said Professor Warrillow.

Professor Warrillow helped the treatment of Don and Gail Patterson and Heather and Ian Wilkinson.

Don Patterson was the first patient to arrive on July 31 after being moved from the Dandenong Hospital, where he had been diagnosed with acute liver failure.

Professor Warrillow says Don has been brought to Austin because it had a liver transplant service.

He says Don is of crucial importance and in life support with serious liver injury and liver failure.

It had very high indicators and his blood clotting measures were very abnormal, including the structure of acid and ammonia in the blood.

We are started with some legal discussions.

The jury has been brought to the courtroom so far and we have started to hear from a new witness, Professor Stephen Warrilow, a director of intensive care at Austin Health, where the guests of lunch were treated.

The court reporter Kristian Silva and the producer Stephen Stockwell have all the reviews of the process and murder proceedings behind the scenes on the Mushroom case daily Podcast.

They are their eyes and ears in the courtroom.

You can also answer questions that you may have about the trial version. To contact contact, write to [email protected].

Yesterday the Shamen Fox-Henry court heard from Digital Forensic Expert.

News from a group chat were read in court in which Erin Patterson described her alienated husband Simon Patterson as “deadly” and said that her extended family was “a lost thing” and she “wanted nothing to do with them”.

Some of the news looked at Simon that she wanted her to withdraw her claim to child benefit.

Data from a tablet also contained pictures of mushrooms on scales and internet search for cancer information.

Good morning, thank you for joining us for another day of evidence in Erin Patterson’s Triple-Merder process.

The Court will appear again in Morwell.

The ABC Hofforter, Kristian Silva, is located in the courtroom of the Latrobe Valley Courts and will join us again.