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FROSINONE It was not a simple operation, but among the possible risks was certainly not the loss of voice and all the other consequences, from depression to dismissal, that would have been this serious impediment. However, this is what happened to a 57-year-old woman from Frosinone, NP (these are her initials), who has only now been compensated for the damage suffered: one million euros that the Asl ciociara has paid in the last days, as determined by the court.
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The intervention
The story begins in the spring of 2013 when the woman, then fifty years old, in full labor and social activity, undergoes a thyroidectomy operation for a “nodular goiter” in the Otorhinolaryngology service of the “Spaziani” hospital in the capital . Ciociaro. A few days later, she is discharged, but a month after the operation the woman can no longer speak, has no voice, and feels severe respiratory failure.
The patient goes to a speech therapist, but nothing. He can no longer pronounce a word, only a slight sound. He despairs because the chances of recovery and return to normal life seem increasingly distant. But what happened? The first verdict, bitter, comes after a specialized examination that found paralysis at the level of the vocal cords. Paralysis that, in addition to preventing him from making sounds, causes continuous respiratory crisis. The woman is hospitalized again, but this time at the “Regina Elena San Gallicano” in Rome where she undergoes another surgery that will only serve to alleviate respiratory difficulties. There is no hope that the function of the vocal cords will recover, as the coroner later found, according to which the injuries are attributable to the surgery and the postoperative course at the “Spaziani” hospital.
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The dismissal
Meanwhile, the woman, manager of a shopping center in the Frosinone area, is fired, and must also say goodbye to her secret dream that sooner or later she hoped to realize: to become a tourist guide. These repercussions, along with health problems, only add to your depression. At that moment the patient decides to sue the ASL to be compensated for the serious damages suffered. After an attempt at conciliation that ended badly, the court ruling came in recent months with the conviction of the health company Ciociara, based on the expertise of the technical consultant, a specialist in surgery, appointed by the judge.
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The experience
According to the expert, in fact, based on the clinical documentation and the visit to which the patient was subjected, the damage to the vocal cords and respiratory function were caused by a medical error and in particular by “inexperience of the technical execution of the surgery “. The expert hypothesizes that during the operation there was a hemorrhage and the surgeon, to remedy it, damaged the nerves of the larynx, thus causing an almost total damage to the vocal cords and a reduction in respiratory capacity. Therefore, the Local Health Authority was ordered to compensate the patient for an amount of 773,799 for non-pecuniary damage and 360 thousand euros for material damage. More than one million euros that was paid in recent days. In the last 5 years, from 2015 to 2019, the ASL of Frosinone paid compensation for medical errors (about 250 cases) for a total amount of about 26 million euros, of which 12 only between 2018 and last year or year .
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