Caution: This article contains medial details some readers may find distressing.
A 27-year-old woman has died in a horrific medical blunder in Russia.
Ekaterina Fedyaeva's mother has accused medics of 'murder' after they
put her daughter on a formalin drip - a solution contain formaldehyde -
instead of saline.
The woman had been in hospital in her home city of Ulyanovsk in Russia
for routine surgery. She was given a drip normally infused into the
veins of the dead to prevent decomposition. Ekaterina suffered horrible
pains and convulsions for two days before falling into a coma.
She was attached to a life support machine and her heart stopped several times.
After being flown to a top Moscow hospital, she woke up from her coma - but finally died of multiple organ failures.
Her mother Galina Baryshnikova and husband Igor were with her when she came round from the surgery in her ward.
'Her legs were moving, she had convulsions, her whole body was
shaking,' said her mother. 'I put socks on her, then a robe, then a
blanket but she was shivering to such an extent, I can't even describe
it. No doctor came to see her although she was coming round from
anaesthetic.'
What is formaldehyde and how is it dangerous to humans?
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Formaldehyde was declared a carcinogen by the US government in 2011 but
is widely used as part of embalming fluid to preserve dead bodies.
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Formalin, made up of around 37 per cent formaldehyde, is a colourless,
strong-smelling chemical substance used in industry and well known to
preserve human corpses.
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Embalmers inject at least 11.3 litres of the fluid into the cadaver's
arterial system and body cavity to slow decay for burial ceremonies.
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Drinking 30 milliliters of formalin can kill an adult, while drinking
doses of concentrated formaldehyde can cause death from respiratory
failure or lead to a coma.
- It can also cause convulsions, stomach pain, diarrhea, vomiting, vertigo and a host of other side effects.
The bereaved mother said: 'We had no idea it was formalin. And they
knew very well that they washed up her body with a poison - and they did
nothing to help…
'Now I understand that formalin was simply eroding her body from
inside. People who performed the surgery already knew that they infused
something wrong.
'They needed to take some urgent measures - but they did nothing.' She
begged doctors to help - but they told her to go home, cook chicken
soup and stop worrying.
'I begged – 'please help her, she is my only child',' said Galina. 'I
think they just wanted me to go away and to hide everything.'
Overnight Ekaterina was rushed to intensive care as her condition deteriorated.
'For 14 hours after surgery she was living with this formalin and they did nothing,' she said.
Galina went in search of doctors and found them in a huddle
'discussing how to tell us that a terrible mistake had been made.' But
they didn't admit exactly what had happened.
The female chief doctor told her: 'A medical mistake took place. She
is in coma now, her heart, lungs and liver stopped working. She is
attached to an artificial lung ventilator.'
Ekaterina was moved to the regional clinic. Here the doctor told Galina and Igor about the appalling blunder.
'It wasn't normal saline, they put formalin into her,' they were informed.
Galina claims that she said to medics: 'I begged – ''please help her,
she is my only child''. They needed to take some urgent measures - but
they did nothing.'
Medics used 52 drugs in a desperate attempt to save the woman, then she was flown to the Moscow hospital but tragically died.
'It is such a crime,' she said. 'I spoke to the criminal investigator,
and he told me it was negligence. But this is pure murder.'
Ekaterina was buried on 7 April and a criminal investigation is underway.
Medics used 52 drugs in their desperate attempt to save Ekaterina and
she was also flown to the Moscow hospital but tragically died
Danny Hussain | Daily Mail
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