A 39-year-old Spanish woman who suffered serious injuries multiple in organs as a consequence of cosmetic surgery to which she underwent on December 2 in Cartagena, Murcia, died at the Santa Lucía General Hospital, where she was hospitalized.
Sara Gómez had spent 29 days in intensive care allegedly for injuries caused by medical malpractice. The family of this real estate agent denounced that she had suffered “a carnage” and took legal action.
The family’s lawyer, Ignacio Martínez, confirmed to Europa Press that she will file a complaint with the Court that is handling the case for reckless homicide once morest the doctor who operated on her.
The woman suffered damage to numerous organs – kidneys, liver, colon, intestine and duodenum, among others – during liposculpture. According to the first complaint, filed while the woman was in the Intensive Care Unit, the operation, for which she paid 5,700 euros, involved general anesthesia and lasted regarding five hours. After that time, the doctor reported that the intervention had gone well, but she had lost a large amount of fluids and blood, which was stabilizing her. Three hours later, the doctor transmitted to the companion the decision to transfer the girl to the Santa Lucía General Hospital “as a method of prevention.” However, the clinical history of this last hospital complex indicates that the woman was admitted “in hypovolemic shock and in a situation of extreme gravity”, for which she had to be operated on urgently.
In the diagnosis of the woman, among other findings resulting from the intervention, various damages such as Fecaloid and biliary peritonitis, ascending colon ischemic necrosis, multiple intestinal perforations, duodenal perforation, abdominal wall necrosis, liver lacerations, retroperitoneal abscess and contained evisceration. It is, according to the lawyer, traumas “more typical of the result of a brawl with a knife.”
The victim’s relatives created the Facebook group: ‘La Voz de Sara’. The objective was to denounce other negligence in plastic surgery and aesthetic medicine, which occurred in Spain.
Liposculpture is a technique that removes fatty deposits through cannulas that are inserted into the body through which the fat is aspirated. Liposuction and liposculpture, according to specialists, are not the same.