Two doctors have been charged with negligent manslaughter after German porn star “Sexy Cora” died during her sixth breast enlargement operation, according to reports.
he 23-year-old actress, who’s real name is Carolin Berger, fell into a coma on Jan. 11 during surgery at a clinic in Hamburg, a spokesperson for the state prosecutor told
BBC News reports that she may had suffered from two heart attacks after the procedure.
According to German newspaper Bild, she was put into an artificial coma following the procedure. CNN reports she died on Thursday.
A statement from the clinic obtained by CNN said the doctors were “extremely upset and deeply regret the death.”
“As matters stand currently a defect in the anesthetizing device can be ruled out,” the clinic statement said. “The claim that the monitoring could have given readings other than the actual vital functions of the patient has nothing to do with the facts and has no connection to reality.”
The doctors in question are cooperating with police, the statement reads.
The cause of death is unclear and autopsy is scheduled take place next week.
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The parents of a baby who fell victim to the A flu in Granada have accused the paediatrician who attended her at the city’s Maternity Hospital of negligence in failing to detect the virus in time to save her life. It was confirmed last Saturday in a telephone call from the hospital that the cause of death was the H1N1 virus.
The parents had taken their 10 month old baby, Sheila, to paediatrics emergency last Thursday after Paracetamol had failed to bring down the high fever she had been suffering for more than 24 hours. They had previously found there to be no paediatrician on duty at their local health centre in Albolote that day.
They told Ideal newspaper that, despite their concerns over the child’s history of the rare epileptic disorder West syndrome, they were given instructions at the hospital to continue with the same medication, as well as medicine to help his breathing. The paediatrician is understood to have diagnosed a probable seasonal virus, telling the couple to return if the baby’s condition had not improved within the next 24 hours.
They returned that afternoon when her condition worsened, but the baby died in Intensive Care later that night after failed attempts to intubate her to open her airway.
The grieving parents, José Manuel Cortés González and Carolina Ribes Sánchez, have now contracted the services of a lawyer to claim liability for their daughter’s death.
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Almost 2,000 years for the doctor who negligently infected patients with hepatitis
• 25 Feb 2009 •
ELEVEN years after the case first came to light, the Supreme Court has rejected Dr Juan Maeso’s appeal against a 1,933-year prison sentence. The mammoth sentence was passed on the 67-year-old anaesthetist by the Valencia High Court in 2007 after he was found guilty of infecting 275 patients with hepatitis C and causing the deaths of four.
The ruling was welcomed by a spokeswoman for Maeso’s victims, Amparo Gonzalez, who said those she represented had taken the news “with calm satisfaction”, in the knowledge that justice had been done. Counsel for the Prosecution and those representing the plaintiffs applauded the Supreme Court decision. Before Juan Maeso was linked to the high number of hepatitis cases diagnosed in and around Valencia, the divorced father of three was regarded as one of the region’s most distinguished anaesthetists. He was so skilled that he had earned himself the nickname of ‘Porcelain Hands’, because of his gentle touch when giving injections.
Patients grateful not to wince at the hypodermic needle could not guess that hepatitis-carrying Dr Maeso was addicted to opiates and habitually injected himself with a drug, a form of morphine called Dolantina, intended for them. Neither did 275 patients know that they would contract hepatitis through the same doctor who said that his life’s ambition was to control and prevent pain.
Between 1988 and 1997, when Maeso was an anaesthetist at Valencia’s ‘La Fe’ hospital and three private hospitals – the Casa de Salud, Virgen del Consuelo and Quiron clinics – he regularly consumed drugs destined for patients. Towards the end of 1997, doctors employed by companies providing medical cover for Telefonica and Iberdrola employees in the Valencia region noticed a rise in hepatitis C cases amongst patients who had been treated at the Casa de Salud clinic. An official review of hygiene and sterilising methods followed and tests for hepatitis C amongst the clinic’s employees led to Maeso. He was suspended in 1998 and dismissed two years later, after further cases were detected amongst his patients at the three other hospitals.
After the outbreak was traced back to Maeso, medical staff told investigators they had noticed that some of his patients were not sufficiently sedated during operations. Several of Maeso’s patients recalled that the anaesthetic had appeared ‘not to work’ and some remembered coming round immediately after an operation, while still in the theatre. One patient told how Maeso took a hypodermic from his pocket and, after giving him the injection, walked away with the syringe concealed in his hand.
When he came to trial in September 2005, Maeso claimed that, far from him infecting patients, he had been infected by one of them – “it happens all the time,” he said – and argued that he was a scapegoat, chosen to conceal shortcomings in the health service.
When a guilty verdict was reached in 2007, Maeso’s defence team launched the appeal which was rejected last week, bringing to an end the nine-year-long case. Insurance companies and the regional health service will meet the compensation costs of 20,374,065 euros, which Maeso was ordered to pay his victims and, despite the apparent severity of his 1,933 year sentence, this will be reduced to 20 years, the maximum time that can be served in a Spanish prison.
VAZQUEZ ABOGADOS como especialistas en Negligencias Medicas y Derecho sanitario pertenece al Servicio Juridico de la Asociación del Defensor del Paciente
ELEVEN years after the case first came to light, the Supreme Court has rejected Dr Juan Maeso’s appeal against a 1,933-year prison sentence. The mammoth sentence was passed on the 67-year-old anaesthetist by the Valencia High Court in 2007 after he was found guilty of infecting 275 patients with hepatitis C and causing the deaths of four. 
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