They had undergone what was supposed to be a simple colonoscopy, but ended up putting their lives at serious risk. This is what happened on May 19, 2023 at the Delta hospital in Lagosantoin the province of Ferrara, where two people, aged 51 and 42, both suffered a form of heart attack after having the same diagnostic test performed on the same day. Once you have seen the cardiac complications, they were both immediately assisted and saved by the medical-nursing staff. After what happened, in an attempt to find out what had gone wrong during the colonoscopy, the two patients reported the fact.
The file
The Ferrara prosecutor’s office, after having opened an investigation into the anesthetist’s negligent injuries, subsequently ordered a medico-legal consultation to be carried out to reconstruct the matter and ascertain any criminal liability in the professional’s field. The operations were carried out by experts Guido Vielmedical examiner of the University of Padua, and professor Francesco Tona, head of cardiology in the Venetian city. According to the results highlighted in the consultancy, the news is that no liability appears to emerge for the anesthetist. According to procura of FerraraIn fact, the two patients would have had an allergic reaction to one of the components of the anesthetic that had been administered to them, probably due to an incomplete collection of anamnestic information before the exam.
Towards archiving
Despite this, however, even if the latter had been collected in a completely correct manner, no useful indications would have emerged for the investigators that they would have advised against the use of that drug, since the patients themselves did not know they were allergic to it before that moment. Based on this evidence, it is now conceivable that the deputy prosecutor Ciro Alberto Savinoowner of the investigation file, proceeds with a request for archiving.
