Hospitalized for intestinal obstruction, a retiree lost her sight after cardiac arrest. She obtained compensation for her loss in the amount of 1.5 million.
It is a medical error that has not gone unpunished that West France reveals to us this Wednesday. Operated on February 3, 2006 for a simple intestinal obstruction, Reine Cailton, 72, came out of the Clinique de l’Anjou (Maine-et-Loire) blind.
The magistrates of the Tribunal de Grande Instance of Angers who lined up behind three expertises (including two overwhelming) therefore decided to condemn the anesthesiologist and the surgeon who took charge of her.
The loss of the victim was estimated at nearly 1.5 million euros. And condemns the two practitioners to pay him nearly 1.3 million euros, the anesthesiologist being held responsible up to 80%. The establishment was put out of the question.
In this case, the complainant was hospitalized for severe abdominal pain at around 11:30 p.m. But this resident of Doué-la-Fontaine, aged 63 at the time, had only been operated on after a CT scan. next day from 12 noon. In the meantime, his state of health had deteriorated: septic shock, cardiac arrest, to finally end with a new intervention. “A succession of errors,” concluded the victim’s lawyer, Me Nicolas Orhan.
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