In 2008 an intestinal obstruction was not recognized at the district clinic, with almost fatal consequences for one patient.
Now the litigation ended with a settlement.
Geretsried
- The litigation lasted nine years.
It now ended before the Higher Regional Court, since the objection period has expired, with a legally binding settlement: The Wolfratshausen district clinic will pay a 37-year-old Geretsriederin in 2008 a total of 75,000 euros in compensation for pain and suffering because of a treatment error.
In addition, there are another 25 00 euros for costs that the woman had to bear for housekeeping, trips, therapy and rehabilitation measures, for example.
If complications arise in the future as a result of the treatment of the woman between June 4th and 9th, 2008, the clinic is also liable for all material and immaterial damage.
On May 28, 2008, the Geretsriederin had a laparoscopic operation on the appendix in the district clinic and was discharged two days later.
Because she was still plagued by pain and also suffered from constipation, the woman went to the house on Moosbauerweg again on June 4, where she was transferred to the intensive care unit.
She suffered from pain, nausea, and vomiting.
Apparently none of the doctors in the surgical department noticed in the following four days that an occlusion of the small intestine could be the cause.
It could not be that doctors in a German clinic nowadays need a full four days to determine an intestinal obstruction, so the later allegation of the Geretsriederin before the district court Munich II. There, in the first instance, an expert had stated that the evidence was on a The intestinal obstruction hardened on the second day after the patients were re-admitted.
For this reason, “another radiological examination” would have been necessary no later than the evening of May 5th, according to the expert.
The Geretsriederin also testified in court that she had been poorly cared for.
Doctors and nurses would have thought she was a simulator.
Emergency operation on Nussbaumstrasse in Munich
On June 7th, the doctors in Wolfratshausen opened the woman's abdominal cavity for clarification in an emergency operating room.
On the night of June 9th, her condition worsened again massively.
It was decided to move her to the clinic of the Ludwig Maximilians University on Nussbaumstrasse.
The Munich doctors put Geretsriederin into an artificial coma, operated on immediately and diagnosed, among other things, an acute intestinal obstruction, a postoperative septic shock and acute and subacute liver failure.
During the operation, she suffered cardiac arrests several times and had to be reanimated.
As a result, the woman had to go under the knife three more times.
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The Geretsriederin will have to live with the consequences, even if, according to her lawyer Claudia Thinesse-Wiehofsky, she is doing well under the circumstances.
"She is a fighter and happy that her future claims are secured," said the lawyer.
"The uncertainty in the nine years has been a great burden for her." Sooner or later problems will arise due to the adhesions - the surgical scar extends from the thoracic to the lumbar vertebrae, according to Thinesse-Wiehofsky.
This was indicated by the birth of her client's first child.
It had to be obtained by caesarean section, which turned out to be “extremely dangerous”.
For this reason, the Geretsriederin and her husband decided not to have any more children.
Incidentally, “nobody” apologized to her client.
The district clinic was unable to provide an opinion on the comparison.