11:42 PM
Monday 09 May 2022
Books – Ahmed Gomaa:
Dr. Mohamed Salah El-Din Zaatar, professor of ophthalmology and former head of the Educational Hospitals and Institutes Authority, revealed the likely reasons behind the death of a girl during examinations in a private eye hospital in Cairo.
The death of a girl named Marina Salah Sarkis, inside a private eye hospital in Cairo, sparked a great controversy among the pioneers of the sites, following talking regarding her death as a result of medical complications she suffered while undergoing dye rays on her eyes, which ended with her death.
Salah El-Din said in statements to Masrawy, “The reason is due to the injection of a substance called “fluorescein” that is injected into patients who are being photographed with a dye for the fundus due to diseases in the blood vessels of the retina. No complications occur.”
Examination of the blood vessels with fluorescein is one of the examinations used in ophthalmology for more than 50 years, and this examination is by intravenous injection of a special dye to see the path of blood in the blood vessels inside the eye to facilitate the diagnosis of various retinal diseases.
Salah El-Din added that “this substance sometimes reacts and causes sensitivity to the skin, and may cause death, either due to a great allergy, which led to a drop in blood circulation like a shock that causes shortness of breath and swelling in the pharynx.”
He pointed out that when this happens, it is necessary to give the case anti-allergens in the room in which the patient is immediately and oxygen to restore breathing normally and take some treatments in the vein quickly in order to act as anti-allergics that occurred, and they must be present inside the injection rooms because eye hospitals do not have It has focused care.
He continued, “The second thing is that before performing the dye test, kidney function tests are performed for the case, because this dye is conducted through the kidneys and therefore must be healthy, otherwise the dye may be stored inside the body, which leads to very great damage.”
And a professor of ophthalmology and surgery said that although this is rare, the dye leads to death and the precautions I mentioned must be taken by conducting a kidney function analysis and placing strong antiallergics and an oxygen cylinder inside the room because sometimes when the dye is injected as soon as it enters the vein it interacts with the body It causes death in minutes.
For his part, a source at the Ministry of Health and Population said that the ministry formed a committee from the Free Treatment Department to review the medical measures taken regarding the death of a young girl inside a private eye hospital in Cairo.
The source explained, in statements to Masrawy, that the Free Treatment Department followed up what was reported on social media regarding that incident, and it is being verified and the measures taken during its treatment are known, and whether there is medical negligence or not, stressing that the necessary legal measures are taken if failure or negligence is proven. in her treatment.
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