Newborn dead, Ruggi hospital specifies: "When we intervened he was already lifeless". Mother saved with emergency surgery
Following a misleading and untrue news item reported by a local newspaper that refers to a woman from Salerno, seven months pregnant, forced to give birth to her stillborn baby in front of the emergency room of Ruggi, the Hospital Trust in question would like to specify the following.
The patient was picked up by an ambulance from her home in the Carmine area and taken to the hospital. The doctors on call found that the fetus was unfortunately dead, and the woman had had an untimely detachment of the normally inserted placenta, a dramatic event that can cost the life of the fetus and the mother, due to a series of processes of alteration of coagulation. Consequently, where timely and precise intervention is not done, the situation can deteriorate in a very short time.
After determining that the fetus was predeceased, the patient was rushed to the operating room and underwent a cesarean section, which was completed by the two doctors on call, who highlighted the presence of hypostatic spots on the newborn, indicating the onset of a previous death.
An hour-long attempt to revive the newborn had no effect and while the baby was dying, the mother was fighting for her life, because the uterus had by now lost the ability to contract, and the woman's blood count, which reported minimal values, testified to her critical condition.
Doctor Mario Polichetti, Head of the Risky Pregnancy Operating Unit, alerted by the doctors on duty, to save the patient's life, removed her uterus, to stop the ongoing hemorrhage, after having informed her family of the procedure to be performed. Doctor Polichetti performed the operation in collaboration with Doctors Francesco Marino, and Massimo D'Aniello and after 24 hours, the news on the health conditions and recovery of the lady from Salerno are comforting.
Article published on 20 January 2022 - 18:32
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