Regional Children's Clinical Hospital (CSTO) of Yekaterinburg

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2024: Payment of 1.8 million rubles as moral damage for the penetration of catheter fragments into the child's body

The Regional Children's Clinical Hospital (CSTO) of Yekaterinburg will pay 1.8 million rubles as compensation for moral damage to the family for the mistake of doctors, because of which the baby lived with a piece of catheter in the heart. The corresponding decision was made on February 26, 2024 by the Leninsky District Court of the city. In addition, the medical institution will have to compensate the plaintiffs for air travel in the amount of 58 thousand rubles.

We are talking about an incident that occurred in 2022. Then a premature boy with respiratory failure was born in the CSTO perinatal center. A catheter was installed for the introduction of nutritional solutions, but at the same time part of the catheter broke off and remained in the child's body.

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Hospital doctors tried two times to surgically remove a piece of the catheter, but the operations were unsuccessful. According to CSTO doctors, further operational intervention was inappropriate. But the parents did not agree with this conclusion and turned to another clinic - they took the baby to Moscow, where local specialists took out a 10-centimeter foreign object through a vein on the leg. After that, the parents of the child sued the hospital.

The Investigative Committee of Russia (TFR) in the Sverdlovsk Region opened a criminal case under Part 1 of Art. 238 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (provision of services that do not meet the requirements of the safety of life and health of consumers), and the chairman of the TFR Alexander Bastrykin instructed the head of the regional department to submit a report on the circumstances of the incident.

According to the results of the forensic examination, the nurses of the hospital in Yekaterinburg, in the process of installing a deep venous line, violated the instructions by trying to pull out the catheter. At that moment, the sharp edge of the needle damaged one of the walls of the tube and it broke. As a result, the court sided with the parents.^[1]

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