How’s the little one today?
A 6-year-old boy in radiotherapy for a disease to fight to receive one wrong dose of the treatment. A 200% higher dose to the one prescribed by doctors for your case. To notice the mother, after the child began to complain of pain and discomfort following the treatment. Now the hospital will have to answer for what happened.
He had to undergo one radiation therapy to the head with a dosage deemed appropriate for your health condition. And yet the dosage was superior 200% to that prescribed by the doctors who were treating him. The story took place in 2016 in Perugia.
The Prosecutor’s Office of Perugia immediately requested the opening of a process. The physicist-doctor and the manager of the facility were involved at the time: in October and November 2016, the six-year-old boy had to undergo therapy for a severe form of leukemia, but something did not go as planned.
Because of the treatment unsuitable on his condition, the child had problems in the brain. Furthermore, according to what was reconstructed by the prosecutor, he allegedly suffered “a serious regression in cognition and reasoning skills and a significant coordination deficit”.
To notice the problems of the child the mother. After several exams and checks, doctors discovered the new diseaseprobably caused by that wrong dose of treatment. The family filed a complaint and complaint with the health facility.
6-year-old boy in radiotherapy receives the wrong dose and the situation worsens
The accusations are heavy. For the medical physicist we speak of “macroscopic error in the determination and calculation of the precautionary encephalic irradiation dose”For the little patient.
While the manager of the oncology radiotherapy facility was sued because “being the holder of a position of guarantee“Towards each patient”failed to check and verify that the execution of the radiotherapy treatment was carried out in the strictly indicated terms and doses, so as to causally contribute to the onset of the brain pathology that would not have occurred if he had fully checked the correctness of the radiotherapy treatment“.
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