Roozrokh Prelim Hearing: See One, Botch One

God knows what I'd do without Sarah Arnquist and her coverage of the Roozrokh case for the San Luis Obispo Tribune.

Today's report of the ongoing preliminary hearing reveals that the California Transplant Donor Network did not require physicians or nurses to undergo specific training in cardiac-death donation until 1 year after the attempted harvesting of Ruben Navarro's organs on February 3, 2006. In fact, the criminal investigation of that night's events are reportedly what prompted national standards for the organ-donation procedure to be adopted.

Also continuing testimony from county coroner investigator Stephen Crawford reveals that, before the night in question, transplant nurse Carla Albright had seen only one cardiac-death donation, and transplant surgeon Hootan Roozrokh had assisted only one such procedure. Crawford also testified that 4 witnessess in the OR that evening recounted differing amounts of medication allegedly prescribed by Roozrokh and how often he prescribed it, wrote Arnquist.