‘He would have had a greater probability of survival’

“Although it is counterfactual to assert that DAM (Diego Armando Maradona) wouldn’t have died if he had been treated adequately, taking into account what was known about the days leading up to his death we agree that he would have had a better chance of survival if he had been treated in a healthcare facility according to medical best practice,” reads the report.

The work of Maradona’s medical staff, led by neurosurgeon Leopoldo Luque and psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov, was closely criticized by the investigators.

In addition to calling their actions “inadequate, deficient and reckless,” the board mentioned it’s doable to infer “that the medical team viewed fully and completely the possible death of the patient, were completely indifferent to the possibility and didn’t change their behavior or treatment plan, sustaining the damaging omissions laid out previously, leaving the health of the patient ‘to chance.'”

In November, Luque informed prosecutors about his skilled relationship with Maradona. “There is nothing to suggest I was negligent,” he mentioned.

In December, Cosachov’s lawyer informed CNN that his shopper “had used her best judgment from a medical point of view.”

‘He began to die not less than 12 hours prior’

The consultants additionally confirmed the outcomes of an post-mortem which decided that the reason for dying was “acute pulmonary edema secondary to the exacerbation of chronic cardiac insufficiency” and assessments didn’t discover medicine or alcohol in his system.

But they underlined that Maradona, who was aged 60 at the time of his dying, suffered extended agony.

“DAM started to die at least 12 hours before 12.30 p.m. on 25/11/2020, which is to say there were unmistakable signs of a period of prolonged agony, and as a result we conclude that the patient was not adequately monitored from 00:30 a.m.” that day.

“The warning signs that the patient exhibited were ignored,” proceed the consultants, who additionally point out an audio message despatched to Maradona’s family members by bodily therapist Nicolás Taffarel.

“Last week I told them we had to get him up because he could develop a pulmonary edema,” he mentioned.

‘He didn’t have full use of his psychological schools’

The former footballer “did not have full use of his mental faculties, nor was he in a fit state to make decisions about his health, from at least the time he was admitted to (the medical clinic in the city of La Plata),” in accordance to the report.

It goes on to talk about the supposed “home hospitalization” Maradona obtained at a home in Tigre, in the northern a part of Buenos Aires, after he was checked out of the Olivos Clinic on November 11, and the place he died two weeks later.

The board mentioned the residence hospitalization “was not so, as the basic conditions to hospitalize a patient with multiple complex pathologies like those DAM had did not exist.”

The medical consultants additionally asserted that the nursing staff at the home was “plagued by irregularities and deficiencies,” that the “correct checks and care” weren’t carried out by “practicing physicians” and “therapeutic assistants.”

Finally, the board mentioned the psychiatric treatment prescribed to Maradona.

Despite being “suitable in both dosage and posology for his nervous disorder,” it could’t be dominated out “that this medication didn’t play a role in the fatal outcome” as “cardiological and laboratory tests were not carried out in the 14 days before death.”

Although all of these being investigated say they dedicated no wrongdoing, they haven’t but commented on the medical board report, which can be analyzed by prosecutors engaged on the case to determine how the judicial investigation will transfer ahead.