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indy3050

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Jun 22, 2011
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A little harsh?

Patrick Ekeng: Doctor charged with manslaughter of Cameroon international
6 hours ago From the sectionFootball
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Patrick Ekeng played for Cameroon at the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations
The Romanian public prosecutor has charged emergency doctor Elena Duta with the manslaughter of former Cameroon midfielder Patrick Ekeng.

Ekeng, 26, collapsed during a league match for Dinamo Bucharest in May and died of heart failure.

The prosecutor said Duta, the emergency medical specialist in the ambulance which took Ekeng to hospital, made no attempt to resuscitate the player.

Hospital staff were unable to resuscitate him on his arrival.

An autopsy showed the player was suffering from multiple serious heart problems, but the Bucharest prosecutor said: "Even if among Patrick Ekeng's causes of death were the cardiac problems he suffered from, by her unjustified inaction Elena Duta removed any chance of survival.

"She did not evaluate the footballer's state of health and made no attempt at resuscitation."

The prosecutor's office quoted forensic scientists as saying 95% of people with similar heart problems survive cardiac arrest if defibrillation is administered within 60 seconds.

"The chances of survival drop by 5.5% with every minute," prosecutors said.

Ekeng fell to the floor in the 70th minute of a televised Romanian league match between Dinamo and Viitorul.

He was pronounced dead in hospital two hours later.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36675570
 




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Oct 8, 2003
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Not harsh. If someone goes into ventricular fibrillation (VF) you have 3 minutes to get the heart back into sinus rhythm or risk brain damage if you get it back later. Unless you have luckily fallen into freezing water (in which case you can suspend your animation for hours). To do nothing when a patient is in VF is criminal. Any doctor should know this. I have been doing research on VF since 1983. It is the single largest cause of death in the UK. In young men it is caused by hypertrophic cardiomyopathy rather han ischaemic heart disease (angina leading o heart attack). But the recipe is the same. Defibrillate with the padles if they are available. Or thump he ches as Vinny Jones explained. That said I doubt the prosecutotrs here know their cardiomyopathy from their ringpiece.
 


Thunder Bolt

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Not harsh. If someone goes into ventricular fibrillation (VF) you have 3 minutes to get the heart back into sinus rhythm or risk brain damage if you get it back later. Unless you have luckily fallen into freezing water (in which case you can suspend your animation for hours). To do nothing when a patient is in VF is criminal. Any doctor should know this. I have been doing research on VF since 1983. It is the single largest cause of death in the UK. In young men it is caused by hypertrophic cardiomyopathy rather han ischaemic heart disease (angina leading o heart attack). But the recipe is the same. Defibrillate with the padles if they are available. Or thump he ches as Vinny Jones explained. That said I doubt the prosecutotrs here know their cardiomyopathy from their ringpiece.

That's why they call expert witnesses.
 


GT49er

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Feb 1, 2009
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Don't know the full facts, so can't/won't comment.





Should go for about ten pages on NSC in that case ... ... ...
 





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