The surgeon who operated on Corentin, 11, who died of a failed appendectomy in 2014 in a Metz hospital was indicted Monday for manslaughter.
At the start of 2016, the Order of Physicians issued suspensions of practice against two surgeons who had operated on Corentin, an 11-year-old boy who died during an appendectomy in 2014 at the Claude Bernard clinic. from Metz (Moselle). Suspecting errors or blunders, his parents had decided to file a complaint against X for manslaughter.
And in this case, justice is moving forward since the surgeon who operated on Corentin was indicted on Monday for manslaughter by clumsiness, recklessness, inattention, negligence or breach of a duty of care.
He faces up to three years in prison and a € 45,000 fine. His hearing before the examining magistrate, Jean-Marie Caronna, lasted more than three hours, says Eastern Republican. It comes twenty-two months after the opening of a judicial investigation by the Metz prosecutor’s office.
In the regional daily his lawyer, Mr.e Joseph Roth, explains: “My client gave an account of the operation which went wrong and gave his vision of the facts (…) What is certain is that time was an important element. My client quickly asked to open the patient, but the anesthetists in the OR dissuaded him. He also told the judge that he had called for help another surgeon who said he was able to repair Corentin’s aorta, continues the lawyer. He didn’t succeed… and I think there were some communication problems in this block. I remind you that on that day, my client was the temporary worker, facing more experienced practitioners, ”concludes Me Roth.
The other version of his father
It must be said that the charges against the doctor are heavy. According to Corentin’s father, who consulted an expert report, submitted in early January, nothing justified the decision to proceed with an appendectomy. “There was no acute appendicitis, nor immediate operative indication,” he stressed at the microphone of Agence France Presse (AFP).
Worse, the intervention itself included flaws: laparoscopy – used in 70% of cases – had not been carried out in accordance with the rules of good practice. And after the onset of the complication, long minutes were lost before its origin was detected. For all these reasons, sanctions against the doctors concerned fell at the start of the year.
The second surgeon, directly involved in this case, is expected in the judge’s office this Tuesday at 2 p.m. He should be indicted in turn, say the local media. In total, it should be noted that these are seven practitioners who intervened at the bedside of Corentin, who died the day after his operation at the Nancy University Hospital. He was transferred there urgently only after nine hours of operation in Metz.
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