Reine Cailton enters the Anjou Clinic (Maine-et-Loire) for an intestinal obstruction, she comes out blind, after a cardiac arrest. 9 years later, the doctors are condemned. At 72, she obtained repairs and received 1.5 million euros for this injury.
This retiree, a resident of Douà © -la-Fontaine then aged 63, was hospitalized at the Clinique de l’Anjou for abdominal pain around 11:30 p.m. She was operated on after a CT scan detected an intestinal obstruction the next day around noon. Septic shock. Cardiac arrest. New intervention. After being resuscitated at the Angers University Hospital, the patient could no longer see when waking up. Since then, his general state of health has greatly deteriorated.
Pierre Cailton and their children Jean-Pierre and Isabelle have been fighting for nine years with their lawyer Maitre Nicolas Orhan for justice to be done for Reine. During the hearing which took place on May 5, 2015, Master Nicolas Orhan relied on 3 medical expertises, two of which were overwhelming, to obtain repair. He underlined “a succession of errors and a management not in accordance with good practices. In the adversary part, the anesthesiologist and the surgeon transferred the responsibilities to each other.
The judgment was released on Tuesday July 7, 2015. The Angers district court sentenced the anesthesiologist and the surgeon who took charge of this patient. The two practitioners must pay him nearly 1.3 million euros, the anesthesiologist being held responsible up to 80%. The establishment, it was set aside.
“The court heard us” underlines the daily news Ouest France. “He recognized the pain of the family and the importance of the fault”.
Read also:
Medical errors: how to get repaired?
Medical error: 4 points to understand everything
Medical accidents: between 30,000 and 40,000 deaths per year