Minute by minute she described her ordeal Roulas Pispirigou painful and desperate attempts for some time to revive Georgina, when the anesthetist of the Karamandanios Hospital, Ioannis Hasapopoulos, failed.

The doctor, with a description that subdued everyone and brought the accused mother to tears, gave a complete picture of what was happening inside the ward where the child without a pulse was taken, as well as those thoughts, anxiety and perseverance that he showed to save the baby.

“I rushed to the ward … The child had no pulse, no breathing … There was an explosion in the head … A few days before Iris got to the clinic … The child was dead when she got to the hospital … I thought that Georgina had to live .. .I said “don’t go, don’t go! You won’t die. And neither will you.”

The witness presented the court with a picture of the child’s extreme distress, stating that they had been trying desperately for 45 minutes when the child gave the signal. “We saw the indication on the monitor!” he said characteristically.

“I was the anesthesiologist at Karamandanios. That day I was on duty, I was there until noon, and then I was ready to go home. There I got a call from the hospital to urgently come for emergency help. Five minutes later I was in the hospital. I rushed to the ward: the child had no pulse, no breathing. Colleagues began cardiopulmonary resuscitation, chest compressions and artificial respiration.

From the moment I left I took control, we intubated immediately and I called the defibrillator. We continued CPR with doses of adrenaline and defibrillation. I can’t describe the intensity of the moment. Anxiety, stress. Only when faced with this, one can understand how difficult it is for a doctor to cope with such an incident, especially in a child.

I asked the doctors why the child was being treated. I was told about the convulsions and that the family had only lost two children. At that moment, my brain exploded. A few days ago, Irida was admitted to the hospital, to the clinic. The colleague went downstairs upset, the child was already dead when she arrived at the hospital.

There was an explosion in my head, and I thought that this child should live. I put in a lot of effort. Compresses, adrenaline, ampoules, repeated. I said, “Don’t go, don’t go, you won’t die, not even you.”

Three quarters passed and we were desperate that nothing was happening. We were ready to leave her. Suddenly we saw an indication on the monitor. We keep talking! And after a while, the child’s heart rate was restored. Tension and breathing recovered. It was a shocking moment and we started crying. Even I, so experienced, could not contain my excitement when I saw that the child had come back to life.”

The President asked I. Khasapopoulos if there was ketamine in the first aid kit, and the anesthetist answered positively:

“It’s an anesthetic. It is used in both children and adults. In children, this is mainly the drug in an anesthetic quiver. The doctor chooses depending on the case.