VIDEO – In September 2014, a patient had died while she was giving birth. The errors of the anesthetist, who had been drinking the night of the tragedy, had been singled out. The obstetrician present that day was placed under judicial control and indicted for “duty to rescue”.
L the child was born alive, but will never know his mother. September 26, 2014, a young woman, aged 28, died at the maternity Orthez (Pyrénées-Atlantiques). In this drama, the responsibility could be shared between the anesthetist, who had been drinking the evening of drama and made several mistakes, and the obstetrician this evening of facts, which was indicted Tuesday.
The second doctor is suspected of “non-assistance to people in danger.” Quoted by Agence France-Presse, the public prosecutor for Pau, Jean-Christophe Muller, said that “the obstetrician has no disqualification, (…) it is behavior in the operating room after childbirth is covered. “
Mr Philippe Courtois, the lawyer of the family of the deceased patient felt that the indictment” does not diminish the responsibility and misconduct by Dr. Helga Wauters “. The latter was the anesthetist who had caused the death of the pregnant woman.
On 26 September 2014, the anesthesiologist is responsible for Xynthia Hawke young woman about to give birth. Belgian, aged 45, she had been recruited to the position, having been dismissed in Belgium last year.
Helga Wauters prodigal epidural his patient, before leaving home friends. She said later to have drunk a “glass of rosé.” Yet when called to the hospital for an emergency caesarean colleagues reported that the anesthesiologist smelled of alcohol and that his behavior was erratic.
The investigation revealed later that she was presented with an alcohol content greater than two grams per liter of blood. The specialist then acknowledged that “a pathological alcohol problem.”
Under the influence of alcohol, Helga Wauters uses a manual ball to ventilate the patient, instead of using the respirator the operating room, intubated, and the digestive tract instead of the airways. Gestures that cause heart failure in the patient. Transferred to Pau Hospital, the young mother died on 30 September. Her child could be born.
A few days later, the anesthesiologist is under investigation for “aggravated homicide” and placed under strict judicial control, including prohibition from practicing medicine or even “the Board” to leave french territory. The obligation to treat his alcoholism is also prescribed.
Motherhood Orthez, whose activities were suspended following this tragedy, has closed in October 2014.
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