200% higher radiotherapy to a six-year-old: severe brain pathology, two doctors on trial
The hypothesis is of culpable injury, for the child "a severe regression in cognition and reasoning skills and a notable coordination deficit"
At the age of six he was subjected to a radiotherapy to the head at the hospital in Perugia which was 200 percent higher than that prescribed as part of a treatment to cure a severe form of leukemia: this is the accusation that the Public Prosecutor's Office Umbrian capital challenges a physicist-physician and the then medical director of the complex of radiotherapy who was treating the little patient, for whom he ordered a summons on charges of negligent personal injury.
The treatment, which took place between October and November 2016, again based on the reconstruction of the public prosecutor, caused a brain pathology in the child which resulted in "a serious regression in cognition and reasoning skills and a significant coordination deficit" .
It was the mother who noticed the first problems in the baby. Following various tests and checks, the new pathology was ascertained. The family thus filed a complaint-lawsuit through the lawyer Laura Modena.
THE RECONSTRUCTION - The indictment against the medical physicist speaks of a "macroscopic error in the determination and calculation of the precautionary encephalic irradiation dose" for the child. Indicated in 4.5 Gray per session "for a total irradiation of 36 Gray (in the strength of eight sessions)", instead "a dose equal to 1.5 Gray for each session" was prescribed so as to "increase by 200 percent the dose of radiotherapy prescribed to the minor by the doctor treating him
The then medical director of the complex structure of oncological radiotherapy was instead sued because "being the holder of a position of guarantee" towards the child "he failed to check and verify that the execution of the radiotherapy treatment was carried out within the terms and in the strictly indicated doses, so as to causally contribute to the onset of brain pathology that would not have occurred if he had fully checked the correctness of the radiotherapy treatment ". The process will now need to establish why the error occurred as well as any responsibilities in the case.
(Unioneonline / vl)
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