Hospital Metz boss cardiology revoked

Written by Sandeep Nehra

The pattern of cardiac surgery at regional hospital (CHR) Metz, Pierre-Michel Roux, was dismissed from the public hospital by a decision of the national center management practitioners in hospitals, officials said on Thursday in concordant sources Metz.

Dr. Roux, suspended in October for “serious irregularities” which resulted in high mortality in its service, said it would appeal to the Administrative Court against this sanction, the heaviest that can hit a hospital doctor of public service.

An Association of Victims of Cardiac Surgery and Vascular Hospital of Metz welcomed the revocation. “This decision is entirely appropriate to the study of records and practices observed,” wrote the president, Mathieu Régis, in a statement.

An expert report issued earlier this year put heavily involved “multiple surgical procedures not validated, not downright deleterious indicated that did not correspond to any public health recommendation.”

The Regional Health Agency (LRA) of Lorraine, who had closed the service authority of Dr. Roux in October 2010, was particularly pointed that for heart valve replacement, mortality CHR Metz was 19% in 2009 and 21% in 2010 whereas for a similar activity, the national average was 6.9%.

The surgeon had justified the excess mortality in its service “the management of patients at high surgical risk.” “Refusing to operate on these patients have in fact improved statistics (mortality) of the service,” he said.

For Hubert de Chevigny, president of “Metz’s heart”, an association of support to Dr Roux, “will require the LRA explained to us how we could send for 23 years (number of years conducted by Dr. Roux CHR Metz, ed) patients to a surgeon incompetent. ”

May 5, the floor of Metz opened a judicial investigation against X in the wake of seven deaths in 2009 and 2010 in the Department of Cardiac Surgery Hospital Bon Secours, CHR exercised where the practitioner.

Although removed from the public hospital, Dr. Roux will continue to practice in the private sector or in a closet liberal.

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