She comes out of the coma but a few hours later she goes back into it, and then dies, due to a bite of food that went down the wrong way.
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It happened in a hospital in Naples on January 25th and now the family wants full light to be shed on the incident. The children of a 78-year-old woman have turned to the lawyer Maurizio Zuccaro, who is dealing with the case together with a team also composed of the lawyers Barbara Esposito and Elio d'Alessio and the civil lawyer Giovanna Ziello.
Following the complaint contesting manslaughter and negligent personal injury, an investigation was opened and the body was seized and subjected to an autopsy. Now we will have to wait for the results that will have to clarify the causes of death and any fault of the medical personnel.
The woman was admitted to hospital due to respiratory failure related to covid-19 on December 4th. On the same day, the health workers decided to transfer her to a sub-intensive care unit where she remained until December 31st. But her health conditions worsened and it became necessary to hospitalize her in intensive care where she remained until 16,20:5 pm on January XNUMXth, when she woke up and was transferred back to the sub-intensive unit.
The good news was communicated to the family, with a phone call, but a few hours later the 78-year-old's daughter, during another conversation with a doctor, learned that her mother was undergoing a CT scan because she had choked on a piece of food.
She comes out of a coma but then dies after choking on a morsel in the hospital
To make matters more complicated, the lady, who had just woken up from a coma, was given an inadequate meal instead of being fed liquids, as per protocol.
Even more tragic is the information that the daughter learns half an hour later when another doctor tells her that her mother had “choked” on that morsel she had ingested, going into respiratory apnea and then cardiac arrest, the latter causing serious irreversible brain damage.
The woman died several days later, in intensive care, without ever waking up and the children, convinced that something had gone wrong, filed a complaint, the same day their mother died, contesting manslaughter and negligent personal injury.
Article published on 9 February 2023 - 17:08
