«If the story of my beautiful daughter gets an employee of the emergency service or a emergency doctorwhen faced with a young woman who presents severe and repeated headaches and also vomiting, go immediately to have the necessary tests performed to obtain a quick and adequate diagnosis, then I will be able to say that making my beloved daughter’s story public will not be been in vain.” These are the words of a father broken with pain who lost his 21-year-old daughter in 2022 due to an “unacceptable” delay in the diagnosis of the serious condition of Cerebral Vein Thrombosis (TVC) that he presented.
Neither the emergency services nor the emergency services of the Sea Hospital of Barcelona knew how to gauge the severity of the condition and the young woman died as a result of a CVT after three days without being treated for the cerebrovascular condition. «Your daughter suffers a food poisoning and SARS-Cov infection. “Nothing serious,” the hospital specialists told him before discharging him, after a simple examination, without any diagnostic test. It was the beginning of a dizzying race towards the sad end for this young woman, who arrived on March 2 without having received treatment.
The family reported the incident to the Court of 1st Instance No. 33 of Barcelona and now she must be compensated with almost all of what she claimed after reaching an agreement with her legal representatives, from the association ‘The Patient Advocate’, with the insurance company Catalan Health Service (CatSalut). The relatives do not want to talk to the media or give details about the amount of compensation because they understand that “there is no amount of money in the world that can be compared to my daughter’s life.”
«The death of my daughter, so young and beautiful, was avoidable, the system had the means and the people to care for her in a large and modern city like Barcelona, but there was no correct diagnosis from the beginning, and from there everything led to his sad end, after a life-or-death operation from which he left with brain death,” laments the father, who accuses the health workers of the Emergency Medical Service (SEM) and the Sea Hospital of Barcelona to “trivialize” his daughter’s symptoms.
Reluctance to send an ambulance
«They thought, first the SEM, putting a thousand objections to sending a simple ambulance, and later the emergency doctors at the Hospital del Mar, that my daughter’s symptoms were not that serious and that exaggerated his painthat it was all due to what he had eaten the night before and the mild Covid that they say he suffered from. Finally, after several days suffering from indescribable pain“My wonderful daughter died when she was only 21 years old,” laments the father.
On February 26, 2022, the young woman began to experience severe, totally disabling headaches, which caused her to experience severe dizziness, nausea, loss of vision, and difficulty speaking. Serious symptoms, all of them, which, according to complaints ‘The Patient Advocate’“they were trivialized, both by the staff of the Emergency Medical Service that “he answered the countless calls that the young woman’s father made to them, such as from the Hospital del Mar where he was admitted to the emergency room on two occasions.”
On the one hand, according to the association, “the EMS did not know how to assess the seriousness of the case despite the detailed description of the serious symptoms that the father made to them in each call; and on the other hand, the Emergency Service of the Hospital del Mar discharged the young woman from the hospital on February 26, after a simple examination, without performing an image test “No examination by a neurologist.” «That day – the complainants add – the hospital issued an erroneous diagnosis of food poisoning and SARS-Cov infection; and informed the father that his daughter was not suffering anything serious.”
«He vomited compulsively and barely saw»
According to the family’s story, the next morning, after being discharged from the hospital, the patient it was much worsewhich is why her father contacted the EMS again, and explained that his daughter had worsened, she was vomiting compulsively, the headache was unbearable, her eyes were lost and she could barely see. “However, the EMS did not make an emergency service available to the patient for her transfer,” the complaint states.
Continuing with the family version it was «thanks to the management of your GPwho managed to have an ambulance transfer the young woman back to the Hospital del Mar. The examination report upon the patient’s arrival, according to ‘The Patient Ombudsman’, described a picture of extreme gravity. “However, despite the very serious symptoms that the patient presented, the requested brain CT took more than nine hours to be performed,” they add.
Unfortunately, the serious diagnosis revealed by the CT scan (cerebral venous thrombosis) was reached so late that the young woman died on March 2, 2022. The lawyer of ‘El Defensor del Paciente’, Luisa Blancowho has led the defense of the case, argued that the patient died as a result of the “serious and unacceptable” diagnostic delay.
He points out that the young woman “suffered serious symptoms that required emergency diagnosis and treatment. However, both the SEM and the Hospital del Mar, they undervalued the clinic of the patient and related it to the symptoms of Covid; “Despite the fact that the events occur in 2022, after two years of Covid, when it was already known by the medical community that there was an obvious relationship between Covid and arterial and venous thrombotic diseases, which had already been described worldwide.” .
In the lawsuit it was maintained that there was “responsibility because it was maintained during three days to the patient with a serious pathology “If he had been diagnosed when it started on the 26th, he could have benefited from the necessary treatment that would have allowed him to survive up to more than 90%.”
From the Association ‘The Patient Advocate’, its president Carmen Flores states: «We want to insist that unfortunately, and despite the fact that we have been denouncing it for years, the trivialization of the symptoms and signs that patients suffer cannot be established in our Healthcare, because cases like this are repeated over and over again in “which the ending is as sad as it is denounceable.”
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