2023-10-20 03:15:00
“Without the hospital-acquired infection, would Miguel Auer have had a chance of survival?”. Defender Ricardo Mendaña He repeated the question three times to Alejandro Cozzarín, the forensic doctor who performed the autopsy of “Ruso” on November 5, 2022 in Neuquén, the day following his death. The third time, The victim’s ex-partner got up and left the room without hiding her annoyance..
Cozzarin He didn’t give the answer yes or no. what was expected by the lawyer assisting Jorge Marcelo Sosa, identified as the perpetrator of the two shots that hit the victim, and Miguel Franco Livello, alleged planner of the coup.
The doctor declared for an hour before the popular jury at Thursday’s hearing, and showed images of the autopsy. Most of Auer’s relatives left the room.
The 58-year-old victim was shot twice with a .40 caliber pistol, a weapon of high destructive power. One entered him through the upper part of the right armcaused an open fracture of the humerus and exited below the elbow.
The other one left his entrance hole on the left side of the neck and came out through the middle of the back, destroying everything in its path, including dorsal vertebrae.
“As if he had been hit by a truck”
Cozzarín explained that Auer never left intensive care. Since his admission to Castro Rendón, on October 24 around 2 p.m., he underwent emergency surgery and various procedures were performed until he died on November 4. “They were days of an agonizing process”he pointed.
«Es as if he had been taken by a truck and it would have destroyed his chest, his spine, his arm. “His body was in a catastrophic situation.”the coroner noted.
To the defenses interested in discussing the cause of death. Cozzarín explained that there was sepsis caused by Escherichia coliwhich he defined as “an opportunistic bacteria.”
How was the contagion
“It might have occurred due to projectile contaminationso it drags the projectile as it passes through the clothing, and took a weak patientsaid the coroner.
“It is within the intra-hospital bacteria,” he responded to a question from Mendaña.
When chief prosecutor Agustín García questioned him regarding the cause of death, Cozzarín differentiated: “the basic cause It was the lung injury caused by a firearm projectile. The intermediate cause It was bronchopneumonia. And the direct cause “It was an infection.”
Survival chances
It was then that Mendaña asked for the first time: “Without the infection, would I have had a chance of survival?”
The doctor responded: “he had an arrest at the scene.” and did not die. He had another seizure during surgery and did not die. She kept him alive.
Mendaña repeated his question. Cozzarín responded: «she kept him alive. Without assistance he would have bled to death, without drugs he would have died..
Mendaña asked the same question for the third time. As Auer’s ex-partner loudly left the room, the coroner gave his definitive answer: “In cases like this, the person usually dies in surgery or at the scene”.
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