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Two former intensive care nurses at Mount Carmel Health testified Wednesday that in 2017 they each administered large doses of fentanyl to the same patient about 20 minutes apart at the direction of former doctor William Husel.
The second nurse testified in the murder trial of former doctor William Husel that he was unaware that his colleague had earlier given the same dosage of 1,000 micrograms to the patient.
Both dosages were prescribed by Husel, who was the attending physician at the time for Ryan Hayes, 39, an overdose patient who was considered comatose during his two-day admittance to the hospital.
Tyler Springer testified that on April 3, 2017, he had no idea that 20 minutes earlier, his nurse colleague Troy Rudman had administered the same dosage to Hayes.
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‘The highest amount of medication that I had given’
Springer testified that he recalled the Hayes case as memorable, without reviewing medical records, because “it was the highest amount of medication that I had (ever) given.”
Springer also testified that he recorded Hayes’ pain as ‘0’ on a 1-10 scale for several hours leading up to the fentanyl dosage. During the removal of Hayes’ breathing tube at about 11:15 p.m., Springer said he had changed the pain score to ’10,’ anticipating that removing the breathing tube would be uncomfortable.
“I anticipated that he had pain. I noticed that he was turning blue,” he said.
Previous doctors have testified that fentanyl, if used at all, would be administered in smaller dosages over a period of…
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