The epidural is the modern way of science to alleviate labor pains. Many women choose it during childbirth, because the pains are really very intense. According to scientists, the pain of childbirth is equivalent to the pain one would feel if all his bones were broken.
Certainly a woman's body is made to withstand these pains, but when you know that you have the alternative to make your childbirth more painless, you will definitely choose it. However, many hospitals in the country and gynecologists do not do epidurals.
This is especially the case in public hospitals where doctors do not necessarily know the woman's history and do not want to risk it. Because doctors who choose not to have an epidural are not doctors who like to see a woman in pain.
The epidural in some cases has tragic side effects and many doctors or hospitals - in Greece at least - are afraid to risk it. Our current story seems to make these doctors true.
The story
We read the news that made the rounds of the world in the Daily Mail. It says that Irrum Jetha, after holding her child in her arms for the first time, felt a wave of love pass through her. Nevertheless, the woman felt that something was wrong.
Irrum Jetha is currently paralyzed from the pelvis down. He is in a wheelchair and lives in the hope that a miraculous cure will finally be found. The woman is still tormented by many questions about her treatment at Westminster Hospital in London.
In fact, Irrum, now 34, and her husband have sought legal advice from a lawyer and have been asked to investigate the exact procedures followed by this hospital to apply the epidural to the woman.
The couple is from Middlesex and appeals to raise money that will be needed for an even more intensive treatment so that the woman can walk again. They both believe that the problem started when the woman was given an epidural during childbirth.
The epidural is given to the spinal cord and it was given to Irrum shortly before giving birth to Amelie at 3:30 am on August 29, 2014. The epidural is a routine procedure that in almost all cases was given without any problems.
Because Irrum had undergone pulmonary heart valve replacement surgery when she was 19, her hospital doctors recommended the epidural to avoid heart problems due to the severe pain.
«The birth itself was a wonderful experience. I was in euphoria afterwards. And when Adam shouted "She's a girl" we were both in tearsIrrum recalls. But at 5 in the morning she was taken to the intensive care unit again as a precaution due to the previous surgery for her heart.
But three hours later she still had no sensation in her legs and Irrum told doctors she was starting to worry. «They assured me it was normal, but I was very worriedSays the 34-year-old.
By 5 o'clock the next day he was already very scared. An hour later the doctors would start to worry too. Adam, a researcher at Imperial College London, says:
«Doctors said at the time that Irrum should be able to stand up. I started to worry seriously because he still had no sense. Suddenly everyone seemed to be in a state of panic. Everything was very scary».
The hospital decided at 6 pm to tell the unfortunate woman that she needed an MRI but because their unit was closed at 5 pm they decided to move her to another London hospital, specifically to Charing Cross which was a few miles away.
This transfer, however, lasted four hours and arrived there at around 10 pm. At Charing Cross, doctors discovered that Irrum had a rare hematoma. Specifically, her epidural had caused a thrombus which compressed her spinal cord and left her paralyzed.
The emergency surgery lasted hours and was quite life threatening. Shortly afterwards, the woman was taken to Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Buckinghamshire, which specializes in spinal cord injuries, and eventually went home shortly before Christmas 2014.
The woman is a scientist and to this day she remains paralyzed. He intends to go to a German clinic that offers specialized physiotherapy. «I will need to spend three months at the Geerlofs Rehabilitation Center in Pforzheim - and it will cost 40.000 XNUMX. "
A spokesman for Chelsea and Westminster Hospital said in a statement: "This was a very complicated, rare and tragic affair and we offer our sincere condolences to Mrs Jetha and her family..
We have reviewed our procedures for post-anesthesia monitoring, rapid transfer to specialized units as well as imaging and neurosurgery. We can not make any further comment at this time as the present case is the subject of legal proceedings».
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