A 34-year-old Spanish woman died on Sunday after an operation. Since the end of April, the young woman was in a coma after an infection during cosmetic surgery. She died this Sunday morning, according to the Spanish newspaper Navarre newspaper.
It was in the query of the European Aesthetic Medical Center (Ceme) in Madrid where the patient, originally from Palma de Mallorca, was operated on, the nature of which is not specified, and was discharged. But a few days later, she suffered a serious infection and was admitted to a hospital in La Paz. The medical team at the hospital put him in a coma.
“Dismay and Sadness”
The lawyer for the young woman’s family, Mar de La Loma, expressed “the dismay and pain” of her partner Daniel and his relatives. She said a rigorous investigation into clinic practices is needed “more than ever. Not so much what happened in the operating room as the post-operative procedures performed” and that other patients may have fallen victim to the same thing. infection.
The Court of Instruction 46 of Madrid has opened an investigation against two doctors and against the clinic for the crime of negligent injury. “We consider that there are too many coincidences with fatal consequences. There must be an investigation and they must pay for it,” said the lawyer.
“No breach of medical obligation”
The Ceme clinic expressed regret over the patient’s death, according to the Spanish newspaper. The management has also recalled that a report has been submitted to the investigating court in which it is concluded “that no breach of medical duty by the health professionals who treated the patient can be inferred.”
The patient would have suffered from an exceptional infectious complication called necrotizing fasciitis after plastic surgery, and whose bacteria “is not transmitted to the hospital or nursing staff but comes from the patient’s microbiota.”
In addition, the report specifies that the diagnosis “can be difficult in the first hours or first days of presentation.” When “signs of general deterioration were detected, she was transferred to a more complex center,” the report says.
Source: BFM TV
