The administrative court condemns the CHU of Rennes to pay 300,000 €, after the death of a patient in 2011. He had suffered from an infection following a heart transplant.
We are on July 27, 2011. A 51-year-old man, father of two children, died at the University Hospital of Rennes. Four days earlier, he had suffered a transplantation cardiac. This transplant was followed by pneumonia, to which the father of the family succumbed. The Rennes University Hospital was called into question, in particular by three experts, who gave their opinion between 2013 and 2015.
Indeed, they believe that the patient was “victim of a nosocomial infection, the treatment of which by the CHU from reindeer had not been in accordance with the rules of the art and the acquired data of science”. According to these experts, it is indeed the infection which caused the death of the patient, and not the heart transplant.
Treatment not adapted to the patient’s condition
Still according to the experts of the regional conciliation commission (CRCI) of Brittany, “the hypothesis of an infection was visible from the morning of July 25, 2011”. In the early afternoon, the patient has a fever and his respiratory rate increases. However, the antibiotic treatment was not given to him until the next morning. In addition, “neither the antibacterial spectrum applied nor the dosage were adapted to the patient’s condition”.
The administrative court of Rennes based itself on the conclusions of these experts and thus condemns the CHU of the city to pay a total of 299,033 € to the wife and children of the deceased patient. L’National Office for Compensation for Medical Accidents, Iatrogenic Conditions and Nosocomial Infections (Oniam) is also ordered to pay the same amount.
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