E.K.
On November 6, 2014 a convict E.K. died in the Institution N18 of the Penitentiary
Department. According to the records submitted for an examination the convict
was placed in a treatment facility 18 for the convict and accused on November 3,
2014. Upon the admission, the patient reported a pain in under the right side of
the abdomen in the area of the bile. According to E.K he had suffered from pains
for the past 10 years. S/he also stated that he suffered a myocardial infraction in
2011. The patient was tested with EKG, chest X-ray, abdominal echoscopy, EDG
(esophagogastroduodenoscopy), biochemical blood test. A cardiologist paid a visit
to the patient. The preliminary diagnosis was calculus cholecystitis, post-operational
ventral hernia, post nephrectomy and gastrectomy period, post myocardial infraction,
arterial hypertension of II degree.
The patient was transferred to a surgical unit for a scheduled operation. The patient
underwent the operation under endotracheal anesthesia, upper-mid laparatomy,
sinechiolisis, cholecystechtomy, sanitation of the abdominal cavity. After the operation
the patient was transferred to an intensive care unit. In about half an hour after the
completion of the operation, bleeding started through the drainage with nasogastric
fluid. The doctors concluded that the patient was suffering from intra-abdominal
bleeding and proceeded with an urgent intervention, relaparatomy. The medical
staff operating on the patient observed that the bile duct and the artery were still
attached and that there was bleeding in the area of bed. The patient was administered
necessary manipulations and the wound was stitched. According to the medical
record, the patient’s condition gravely deteriorated in about an hour with cardiac
arrest. Resuscitation did not yield desired outcomes and the patient died at 21:40.
According to the report N006078514 of the National Forensics Bureau, the death
was causes by an acute cardiovascular insufficiency resulting from an acute ischemic
damage to cardyomyocitis.
The forensic report indicates the following diagnosis: vascular atherosclerosis of the
brain-tunic, swelling of the brain and brain-tunic, coronary atherosclerosis, postinfraction scars on the myocardium, an acute ischemic damage to cardiomyocitis,
myofibrosis, aortal atherosclerosis, pulmonary emphysema, inflammation of the bile
ducts, extra- and inter Glisson’s capsule extravasations, nephric atheroarteriosclerosis,
post cholecystectomy condition.
Even though a letter from the Medical Department of the Ministry of Corrections
corroborate the record of myocardium infraction sustained by the patient in 2011, the
same letter does not provide a proof that the deceased was tested for cardiovascular
diseases (except for EKG before the operation).
Based on the above said, it is evident that there are problems related to timely and
adequate medical services which require immediate resolution. We find it critical that
particular attention be paid to screening of cardiovascular and respiratory diseases in
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