Investigation after the death of a patient during a minor operation – ladepeche.fr

A preliminary investigation for “manslaughter” was opened by the prosecutor of Bourges (Cher) following the death of a pensioner during a benign intervention practiced the prostate, according to his family, a surgeon urologist to brutal methods, have we learned Monday from reliable sources.

60 the patient “in top form”, according to his daughter Emily Latour, entered January 14 in the morning to the block operation of Bourges hospital for an operation to the prostate, under regional anesthesia. He died a few hours later from heart failure after a severe bleeding.

The retiree had been cremated without autopsy and the family had accidentally discovered that the urologist had been suspended from all activities the block. She then filed a complaint on March 3 against the surgeon.

“The surgeon was in a second mental state”, on Monday accused the lawyer of the girl patient, Me Philippe Courtois, at a press conference in Paris. “It is not a therapeutic hazard but a medical error caused by repeated brutal acts” of the urologist. For him, the hospital made a “mistake” for “not reporting this death without explanation” to justice.

According to the anesthetist’s report to management and consulted by the AFP, that day, the surgeon enters the block “agitated, angry.” “He expressed his displeasure vis-à-vis the equipment + shit (sic) + at its disposal.” The surgeon performs the procedure to remove a nodule on the prostate by performing “violent” actions, which will eventually pierce the bladder according to the anesthesiologist, with blood loss “appalling”. Before the deceased patient, the surgeon would then start the “hit” by asking “why did you do this to me?”.

The anesthetist and members of the medical team were gathered after surgery and had felt that “this intervention was a real butcher + + unworthy of any operating room,” it said in the report.

Many practitioners had announced to the direction January 22 in a letter not want to support the patients of surgeon “for reasons of skills and mental ability”, highlighting the “professional drift” of their colleague can “sometimes expose patients to serious risks.”

“in 30 years of career, the professionalism of my client has never been questioned. he categorically denies having shown any hysteria, however, that day there had a hardware problem, he asked for the right, “responded me Amélie Chiffert, counsel for the urologist. She denounced the “opportunistic accusations” and “very fast”, which reveal the “relationship problems” vis-à-vis the surgeon.

The prosecutor Bourges, Vincent Bonnefoy, told AFP he was alerted “early March” by the hospital “that an operation had gone from hard way.”

Meanwhile, the hospital said it had opened “an internal investigation (…) as soon as we were informed of the death.” The elements “were sent to the prosecutor of Bourges, the Regional Agency for Health and the National Centre for Management (which manages the hospital practitioners),” the director Agnès Cornillault.