For 33 years .. never forget .. Marika Busetto six years
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. Wrong drug,
child died at six years: a medical opinion
Dr. graduate student administered a small dose of medicine Treviso 20 times more than recommended
Lino Lava
PADOVA (July 22) - At the material time the young doctor was a physician specializing in the fourth year of graduate school in pediatrics and lent his professional activities and training inherited metabolic diseases department of the Hospital.
It was treating a girl of six years, suffering from a congenital metabolic disease. The small, Marika Busetto, living in Barbisano of Pieve di Soligo, near Treviso, died June 23, 2005. He was very ill and weighed only 17 pounds. But the prosecutor Orietta Canova the child died at the home of a graduate student of Dr. mistake. He would receive a dose of medicine twenty times greater than what was given to the little sick girl.
Dr. Luisa Freo, thirty-three, in the city, was prosecuted by the court preliminary hearing Cristina Cavaggioni. The defendant, defense lawyer Lorenzo Locatelli, to appear before a judge sitting alone on 11 December. Family members have formed part of the small civil lawyer Pero Barolo.
The investigation by the prosecutor was opened after the death of the child Treviso. Four doctors who had joined the Attorney Canova under investigation. Three of the doctors who had treated Marika were acquitted during the investigation. The consultants argue that the public prosecutor responsible for the death of the patient is young doctor, who was specializing in pediatrics.
Busetto Marika had been under treatment since birth. At that time the parents had daughter was hospitalized because of repeated vomiting episodes "in the course of respiratory viral infection", as stated in the indictment. The child was to be administered orally every day, a life-saving medicine. Eleven grams of arginine. Medicine was commensurate with its weight of only 17 pounds. Well, because of continuous vomiting, the doctor decided to Freo with an IV arginine hydrochloride. According to the indictment, the pediatrician was wrong to do the math between mirigrammi of the drug daily and the weight of the small patient. In addition, says the indictment that the defendant was wrong 'even want to believe there was an opportunity - given the current viruses that could facilitate a failure metabolism - a loading dose of arginine in the first two hours and then a reduction in hours, when prescribing treatment without any change after the first two hours, this does not establish a proper protocol of drug administration. Quick feedback / callback between 20.15 on 20 June 2005 and 4.10 in the 21 June 2005 was administered (in implementing its requirements) an amount of arginine than twenty times the intended dose.
consultants prosecutor argued that the "administration of the wrong drug" has caused the young patient hyperammonemia, serious imbalance in the circulation (hypotension) and renal function resulting in acidosis and hyperkalemia until metabolic decompensation with severe cerebral edema.
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