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They install the pacemaker in the wrong direction yet newborn with a heart problem. An error never corrected in three years of wrong or delayed operations, misinterpreted X-rays, incorrect prescriptions. The boy, Giacomo Francesco Saccomanno, three years after installing the pacemaker in the wrong direction, will die on January 3, 2019 after another delay: the baby was transferred to the hospital at 9 p.m. on December 31, 2018, but was operated on only on January 1. The term is only inserted in to accuse advanced by the prosecutor Daniela Cento to the eight doctors of the Child Jesus who took care of the little one.
Towards the doctors will take place Tuesday, September 15, the evidentiary incident in front of the investigating judge Andrea Fanelli. The crime in dispute involuntary manslaughter. Little Giacomo was born in Taormina on September 14, 2016. The newborn is affected by a congenital atrioventricular block. The following day, September 15, he was immediately operated on at the Bambino Gesu medical center in the Sicilian town. To perform the intervention are Eugenio Trimarchi, Fabrizio Gandolfo and Alfredo Di Pino. this is the occasion in which -according to the prosecutor- the first mistake is made: the the pacemaker is installed in the wrong direction and the consequence, for the prosecution, will be that over time a rope will form with progressive strangulation of the pulmonary artery.
From that moment on, Giacomo Francesco will be followed at the seat of the Child Jesus in Rome. On April 26, 2018, the boy was examined by doctors. Mario Russo and Antonio Ammirati. The two doctors examine a chest x-ray ma they don’t realize, according to the indictment, of straightening problems pacemaker. They only notice an elevated position of the electrodes, and this should have suggested, according to the prosecutor, prescribing a new chest x-ray. The examination that is not ordered, and also this omission for the prosecutor will contribute to the death of the minor.
On September 27, 2018 the cardiologist Mario Russo visits the baby again. The doctor detects a slight dilation of the ventricleHowever, according to the prosecutor’s office, does not prescribe a heart scan urgently and so delays the execution of corrective surgery the pacemaker position that could have saved the baby’s life. Three months pass. Francesco is visited on December 21, 2018 by the cardiologist Roberta Iacobelli. The doctor, while prescribing the need for undergo surgery, discharges the child but without forcing him to stay in Rome. An indispensable prescription – according to the prosecution – because it would have allowed the child to be hospitalized immediately in case of complications.
the December 31, 2018 the last chapter of the tragedy begins. The little one in desperate conditions when they visit him at the Polistena hospital. The situation dictates the transfer of the child to Rome by military plane. Giacomo Francesco arrives in the capital at 9:00 p.m. According to the parents, represented by lawyer Domenico Naccari, at that time there is no medical equipment available to operate on the child. The prosecutor points out that the operation is carried out only on January 1. The prosecutor also writes that doctors Sonia Albanese and Matteo Trezzi will perform the Ecmo procedure with macroscopic delay, essential in subjects with heart failure problems. The little one will die on January 3, 2019.
Hospital management response in a note: Reconstruction of history far from reality. There is no “reverse” pacemaker. The statement does not make any sense from a clinical point of view and is not reflected in the research carried out so far even by family consultants.. Instead, there was complication predicted in the literature that occurs in very few cases and can be resolved surgically. The surgery was already scheduled. But, unfortunately, the boy, while waiting to return to hospitalization, contracted a virus and then pneumonia that proved fatal. The hospital close to the family and trusting in the work of the judiciary.
September 13, 2020 | 13:03
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