This morning the Court of Appeal issued an order to carry out further investigations into the responsibilities of the four doctors convicted a year ago by the single judge of first instance.
Italy (Brussels Morning) The trial for the death immediately after giving birth of Messina singer Lavinia Marano continues. Just under a year ago the verdict of the single judge of first instance, Rita Sergi, who sentenced four doctors to one year in prison (with suspended sentences) and acquitted six of them (here is the link to the article with the whole story and the charges accusation), and this morning the request formulated by the deputy general prosecutor Adriana Costabile at the Court of Appeal to verify other facts concerning the four convicted persons (Onofrio Triolo, Antonio Denaro, Roberta Granese and Vittorio Palmara), for which he will be entrusted an assignment on December 5th.
What is there to check? «In particular – we read in the order of the Court of Appeal – it must be ascertained whether there was negligence, imprudence or incompetence in the choice to arrange for the medical induction of labor of the patient Marano Lavinia; if immediately after the cesarean section the same patient should have been subjected to a continuous infusion of nalador in order to prevent postpartum atony of the uterus; if after the cesarean section the patient should have been admitted to the intensive care unit because she was highly exposed to the risk of haemorrhage; whether, after the bleeding occurred, a hysterectomy should have been performed immediately or whether the choice to apply the Bakri Baloon was in accordance with the guidelines and the patient’s concrete conditions;
What is there to check? «In particular – we read in the order of the Court of Appeal – it must be ascertained whether there was negligence, imprudence or incompetence in the choice to arrange for the medical induction of labor of the patient Marano Lavinia; if immediately after the cesarean section the same patient should have been subjected to a continuous infusion of nalador in order to prevent postpartum atony of the uterus; if after the cesarean section the patient should have been admitted to the intensive care unit because she was highly exposed to the risk of haemorrhage; whether, after the bleeding occurred, a hysterectomy should have been performed immediately or whether the choice to apply the Bakri Baloon was in accordance with the guidelines and the patient’s concrete conditions;
To answer the questions it was necessary to appoint an expert panel composed of a specialist in forensic medicine (Professor Stefano De Pasquale Cerrati) and a gynecologist (Doctor Paolo Scollo, Director of the Division of Obstetrics and Gynecology of the Cannizzaro Hospital in Catania). The panel of judges, however, is made up of the president Carmelo Blatti and the councilors Daria Orlando and Luana Lino.
The 44-year-old had been admitted to the Polyclinic to give birth. On September 22 she gave birth to her son by cesarean section, the baby was born in perfect condition. Then the need arose to intervene to stop the bleeding. The doctors had to remove the uterus. Unfortunately, the woman’s condition worsened until the following morning, when she died. The prosecutor’s office had opened an investigation into the case which resulted in the request for indictment for manslaughter against ten “white coats” by the deputy prosecutor Rosanna Casabona, accepted in November 2018 by the investigating judge Tiziana Leanza.
The trial began in June 2019 and last November, at the end of the indictment, the deputy prosecutor Anna Maria Arena requested a two-year prison sentence for nine doctors and acquittal against one “for not having committed the Done”. Specifically, those who were sent to trial were Onofrio Triolo, the head of the department, the doctors Antonio Denaro, Rosario D’Anna, Roberta Granese, Tommasa Quattrocchi, Vittorio Palmara, the anesthetist Pasquale Vazzana, the midwives Angela Lacerna Russo and Serafina Villari, the nurse Maria Grazia Pecoraro. The acquittal, which was accepted, was requested for D’Anna.
The family members had joined the civil action through the lawyers Nunzio and Franco Rosso, Giovanni Caroè and Carola Flick, while the defense team was made up of the lawyers Daniela Agnello, Tommaso Autru Ryolo, Benedetto Calpona, Carlo Autru Ryolo, Emanuela Trimarchi, Giuseppe Carrabba, Maurizio Cacace, Giuseppe Santilano, FrancescoRizzo, Flavia Maria Fiorenza Buzzanca, Agatino Bellomo, Ettore Cappuccio and Rina Frisenda.
The article was published in the platform of LetteraEmme in Italian here: https://www.letteraemme.it/morte-di-lavinia-marano-la-procura-chiede-ulteriori-verifiche/
