Laura Higginson died in Whiston Hospital in April 2017 after an incorrect dose of paracetamol.
The husband of a woman who died days after being mistakenly overdosed with paracetamol in hospital sobbed in court as he described her final days.
Whiston Hospital, which has previously admitted administering too much paracetamol intravenously over the course of two days, said it had immediately given Mrs Higginson an antidote and that it had not caused her death.At Mrs Higginson's inquest, sitting in Bootle, Dr Higginson told the coroner that his wife had vomited blood and turned yellow following the overdose.
Dr Higginson said he had heard the shouting and sensed “panic” when he went to get more sick bowls from the nurses’ station. The trust’s investigation into Ms Higginson’s death showed that the effect was "transient", and the trust said it did not contribute to her death.
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