“It’s as if I was going to die…” Vincent Eckhard always remembers with emotion his discomfort on his emergency bed at Pontoise hospital (Val-d’Oise).
He should have led the doctor who took care of him to diagnose a serious pulmonary embolism.
Instead, the practitioner sent him home with Doliprane, to treat what she thought was sciatica.
“With an embolism like this, you could die any second.
They are lucky that I am still here…” says this 54-year-old man, who decided to file a complaint against the Novo hospital, the entity which includes the René-Dubos hospital center in Pontoise.
A look back at the evening of September 29 and the arrival at the emergency room of René-Dubos hospital, at 10:30 p.m.
“My legs were swollen, my calves were very hard.
I could neither walk, nor even lean on my legs,” reports Vincent, who fears a new episode of phlebitis.
He stays in a waiting room until 5 a.m., then in a bed.
“Around 3:30 p.m., 4 p.m. the next day, I felt unwell.
I faint.
I couldn't get any air anymore.
My throat tightened.
I felt it was closing.
» He regains consciousness a little.
“I remember people slapping my face,” he says.
I hear that I have 8 blood pressure.
They tore off my t-shirt, gave me an injection.
Someone said to me:
You scared us
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