The patient suffered a serious intestinal perforation during the intervention, carried out at the Virgen de la Caridad clinic in Cartagena
Sara, a 39-year-old woman, has been torn between life and death in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Santa Lucía since last December 2, when she was admitted due to complications arising during a liposculpture performed at the Virgen de la Clinic. Charity of Cartagena. The intervention, consisting of the extraction of fat from the abdominal area, was in principle simple, but everything went wrong.
“Sara entered the operating room on Thursday, the 2nd, at eight in the morning,” says Ezequiel Nicolás, who acts as the family’s spokesperson. “After the operation they could not stabilize it, they spent more than four hours trying,” he explains. Apparently, the cannula used to extract the fat had caused severe perforations in the intestinal area and colon, and Sara began to lose blood. Three and a half bags were transfused, as confirmed by Fulgencio Albaladejo, medical director of the Virgen de la Caridad, who assures that the intervention was not directed by a professional from the center, but by an external surgeon. Finally, 061 was notified, which transferred the patient to Santa Lucia. “She arrived around six thirty in the afternoon, almost dead,” Ezequiel Nicolás denounces. Since then, she has been intubated and in critical condition. An intervention has been carried out due to the necrosia that he presented in the colon, the family explains, and he continues “with multi-organ failure.”
Sara’s relatives are already preparing legal actions with the lawyer Ignacio Martínez, from the Patient Defender association, in the face of what they consider to be a serious case of negligence. “They have left him with the entire part of the small intestine and the colon perforated, with the abdominal wall destroyed, and with multiple damages. The need for a liver transplant was even raised, although in the end it seems that this organ is not damaged “, Ezequiel lists. “They had to operate on her, and when the doctors here at Santa Lucía opened up they realized that Sara had been slaughtered,” he laments.
The center points out that the surgeon is not a staff member, but rather rented the operating room to carry out the operation
Fulgencio Albaladejo, medical director of the clinic, explains that although the surgeon was alien to the center, the rest of the team was his own, and defends his performance. “All we want is for the patient to fully recover. The performance of the operating room staff, in my opinion, has been correct. In praxis [del cirujano] I’m not going to enter. But the follow-up and transfusions were carried out in accordance with the highest quality requirements, “he says.
“Uncommon”
For his part, the surgeon responsible for the intervention argues that the complications that arise fall within the risk of liposculpture, although he admits that “they are rare.” The professional points out to THE TRUTH that the risk increases in those who have previously undergone interventions in the abdominal area, and that the patient was referred to the ICU when it was found “that she had not finished stabilizing.”
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