USP Clinics Hospital investigates anesthesia sector – 03/20/2023 – Mônica Bergamo

The Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da USP (HCFMUSP) formed a commission to investigate the veracity of serious reports forwarded to the institution’s management through a letter attributed to anesthesia residents at the university.

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The document is not signed and is considered apocryphal, but lists a sequence of disturbing accusations that will now be investigated. According to the text that reached the top of the HC, there is a crisis in the hospital’s anesthesia sector, with the hiring of “inexperienced professionals in the care of highly complex surgical patients”.

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Patients, the letter continues, “do not receive the necessary, correct and deserved assistance”, and public resources are being spent “on hiring unprepared professionals, who are allocated on duty the day before without any knowledge of the service and its complexity”.

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The letter recounts episodes that would have taken place in the Surgical Emergency Room of the Central Institute, where first and second year medical residency students work shifts.

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A reference in the state of São Paulo, it receives numerous urgent and emergency cases, including casualties rescued by Military Police Eagles helicopters.

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According to the letter, it is “a unique experience for us and for residents of surgical specialties, which prepares us to care for extremely serious patients, mainly polytrauma patients (the main cause of death in young adults in our country)”.

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The problem, says the text, is that there would be a precariousness in the provision of services due to the end of the outsourcing contract with a company that provided experienced anesthesiologists and who guided the residents.

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“The account did not close, and professionals inexperienced in the care of highly complex surgical patients took over the service”, starting a cycle “of normative illegalities”, says the text.

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The letter reports that unsupervised residents took care of four operating rooms simultaneously, and “even a trained anesthetist could not, ethically and legally, anesthetize more than one patient at the same time”.

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According to the complaints, “there was a cardiorespiratory arrest during a complex surgery in which the attending physicians of the surgical team had to assist the anesthesia residents because the anesthesiologists themselves were completely unprepared to handle such a situation”.

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The problems would be leading professionals to promote a stoppage.

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The hospital says that preliminary investigations have already shown that there are facts reported in the letter that do not correspond to reality.

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“HCFMUSP clarifies that there is no strike by anesthesiology professionals and that the information indicated in an apocryphal letter is being checked”, says the institution in a note.

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The institution also states that, being an “international reference”, the HC maintains “its own staff of anesthesiologists, recently reinforced by other professionals from outsourced companies to guarantee assistance to the population, especially with the resumption of elective surgical procedures after the most critical period of pandemic, in which these had to be suspended”.

IT’S PIQUE!

Former senator and municipal secretary of International Relations of São Paulo, Marta Suplicy, received guests such as the mayor of São Paulo, Ricardo Nunes (MDB), at her birthday party. The celebration was held in her apartment, located in the Jardins region, on Saturday (18).

Marta’s husband, businessman Márcio Toledo was responsible for organizing the get-together. Names such as São Paulo state deputy Emidio de Souza (PT), lawyer Marco Aurélio de Carvalho, former Coaf president Adrienne Senna Jobim, former STF (Federal Supreme Court) minister Nelson Jobim and journalist, writer and columnist for Sheet Tom Farias.

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