Emma Martinez Gascon, 12, died peritonitis on Monday in a hospital in Valencia, Spain, after three trips to the emergency room where no problems were diagnosed.
The girl complained of severe abdominal pain accompanied by vomiting and fever. Sunday, January 29, her mother decided to take her to the Emergency Center located in Vivere, Valencia, where the doctor found nothing serious.
“My wife asked if it could be appendicitis since we have a family history. The doctor replied that he didn’t think it was appendicitis, but that it could be her first period or a stomach virus,” Emma’s father says in statements. Spanish newspaper a country.
Emma’s condition worsened, the pain in her stomach was so severe that she could not sleep. On Thursday, February 2, the mother made the decision to return to the Weaver Emergency Center, where they were examined by another doctor, who, according to the parents, repeated the diagnosis of the previous doctor.
“When I got home on Friday and saw my daughter’s face, I couldn’t even get up. The next day at 11:30 I took her to the hospital,” said the father. “Fwe stayed until 17:00. They did a urinalysis and abdominal auscultation, noticed a white tongue, and more. They must have seen that the urine tests were normal and sent them home,” he adds.
On Sunday, Emma became worse and her heart stopped. Parents withThey called an ambulance, which arrived within 12 minutes and was able to stabilize her condition. “She was taken to the Clínico de Valencia hospital, where the pediatric team was already waiting for her for surgery,” recalls her father.
“Then she had a cardiorespiratory attack again, they still tried to resuscitate her for about two hours, but in the end she died,” he added.
The cause of death was “purulent peritonitis”, an infection of the lining surrounding the intestines (peritoneum), which eventually led to a generalized infection.
“How did it happen that after three trips to the doctor they could not do either an ultrasound or a blood test? Emma died of something preventable after eight days of suffering,” the father asks.
The family intends to file a complaint against the hospital administration for medical negligence.
Author: morning Post
Source: CM Jornal
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