12/03/2020 12:39
Clarín.com
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Updated 12/03/2020 12:39
According to documentation incorporated into the court case investigating the circumstances in which Diego Maradona's death occurred, the soccer star had been prescribed, on November 16, a series of
psychiatric medications
.
Among them, one commonly used to treat withdrawal and a mood-regulating antipsychotic.
The list of these drugs, as published by the newspaper La Nación, consisted of Quetiapine (commonly used for the treatment of schizophrenia), Naltrexone (used to assist
people who stopped using alcohol or drugs
), Gabapentin (it is for the treatment of epilepsy and is used in pain therapies), Venlafaxine (an antidepressant), Levetiracetam (anticonvulsant), Omeprazole (gastric protector) and Complex B (a set of B vitamins with analgesic effect against neuropathic pain).
It is the set of drugs compatible with the treatment of a
"severe" withdrawal syndrome
, said the neurologist and journalist Nelson Castro.
Naltrexone was administered to detoxify, and other medications were to control the possibility of adverse effects such as episodes of confusion, violence and even hallucinations, Castro explained on Telenoche.
Several of these medications have
effects on the heart
, and one of them is an increase in heart rate, Castro said.
"You have to see in what doses they were being given and if they were all being given simultaneously," he clarified.
"Patients in abstinence represent
a danger to themselves and to others
. That is why it surprises me that they left him alone for so long without observation," Castro added.
For him, the situation of Maradona, a patient with dilated heart disease, made
the intervention of a cardiologist
in the management of the adverse effects of abstinence treatment expected, since the medication was considered necessary, at least for a time.
From the analysis of the psychiatric medication prescribed for Maradona, Castro concludes, regardless of who the responsibilities correspond to, that
discharging Maradona was a mistake
and that there was an error in judgment when framing the case of the former soccer player: "There was a patient who He not only had a psychiatric problem, but an important clinical cardiological problem, "said the doctor and journalist.
The prescription with Maradona's psychiatric medication is signed by the psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov (35), according to La Nación, and is part of the judicial file that attempts to determine how the former footballer died.
This Tuesday, personnel from the City Police Health Crimes Division and Buenos Aires Police officers raided, at the request of Court 6 of Guarantees, Cosachov's private house and office.
That day, Cosachov was read about the rights and guarantees contemplated for the accused in articles 60 and 162 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Province of Buenos Aires.
She was one of those who gave the endorsement for Maradona to be discharged on November 11 after the operation for the subdural hematoma on the head.
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