Alejandra Berlini gave a painful testimony about the irregularities of the procedure that ended her brother’s life after undergoing a dental implant in a clinic in Belgrano, Argentina.
His brother, Miguel Ángel Berlini, had to undergo a surgical procedure that would last four hours. However, five hours later, he was informed that Miguel had died.
Due to the above, the clinic’s operating room is closed and the professionals involved detained.
“This is the terror clinic,” said the sister in dialogue with LN+.
It all happened last Wednesday, after Miguel arrived at the clinic accompanied by his sister and his two daughters, Camila and Celeste. According to Berlini, Miguel was nervous about the procedure, since he had never undergone something similar.
“My brother was afraid to even get an injection. He was never sick or hospitalized,” Berlini said. The man had doubts about what could happen to him in the event of a hemorrhage, according to her.
“I told him that they [los médicos] They know about this. He had his normal nerves like anyone who is going into an intervention, but he was determined to do it. I was looking for a smile. “A nice smile,” he said.
Miguel had arrived at the Robles Clinic, located in Virrey del Pino at 2500, after rejecting other options due to very high prices. Through social networks, I had come across a video by maxillofacial surgeon José Miguel Galeano where he talked about a new technology for performing dental implants. Miguel was looking to make four.
“She asked for an interview with Galeano, where they told her that the procedure was going to be for sedation, something they told her was normal. They told her that she had to pay for the anesthesiologist, the operating room that was rented, and the implants. And that’s how it was,” said Alejandra.
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Surgeon Galeano is a native of Viedma, Río Negro, so to perform interventions in the city of Buenos Aires he rented operating rooms in different places. This is how he had arrived at the Robles Cosmetic Surgery Clinic, owned by plastic surgeon Marcelo Fernando Robles.
Miguel was looking to begin the implant process and this was his first intervention: “He was going to remove his teeth, the roots he had, and put in the four pins.”
Upon arriving at the clinic, they were greeted by Galeano. “I asked him if there was any risk. He said that he operated with sedation to be calmer, in case the patient got nervous,” Alejandra recalled.
Then, he assured that they gave the man a sublingual pill. Generalized sedation, in the operating room, was the next step.
“I wanted to accompany him to the door, but they didn’t let me enter or see him. They put us in a room with my nieces and we stayed there,” he said.
It wasn’t until 12:30 that Robles appeared to notify them that they were suturing him and that they were going to take him to the intensive care area to scan him. Alejandra sensed that something strange was happening, given that the scan could be performed in the operating room or in the room where she and her nephews were.
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“He asked me if I wanted to watch the scan. I said yes. But he never came.
“The hours began to pass and I, obviously uneasy, began to inquire with one nurse, then with another. ‘I’ll find out for you now,’ they told me. Nobody found out anything about me. At 5:30 p.m. these two doctors came in, opened the door and told us that there was one last complication and that [Miguel] He suffered cardiorespiratory arrest. “I asked them if he died and they told me yes and that they tried to revive him for 40 minutes.”
Miguel’s sister reported that the establishment’s staff contacted SAME and the Police twice to warn about a man with “low vital signs,” but that they later canceled the request because the patient had died.
“I worked for ten years in emergencies. How are they going to call a highly complex ambulance when the operating room is the one that has to be highly complex?” he claimed.
In the middle, Berlini noted that after his brother’s death, Robles’ lawyer entered the establishment: “So my brother was already deceased and they were seeing what to do.”
Alejandra commented that her brother was “young and healthy”, that he had undergone pre-surgery and that all the tests had given a correct result. The victim’s sister said she was sure that there was no anesthetist, as Miguel had paid for.
“Robles injected him with anesthesia, because if there had been an anesthetist, he would have been detained with the other two. But they kept the money,” he said.
In addition, he maintained that Miguel was not monitored during the procedure: “Do you know how they realized that he had no vital signs? Because his chest was not moving. He was not breathing. The frequency had dropped. This is the terror clinic.”
To add to this, he revealed that a nurse wanted to persuade the family not to perform an autopsy.
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“We were desperate and bad. She said: ‘Girls, can I give you some advice? Don’t do an autopsy. Because I suffered it with my grandfather and then everything is marked for the wake, it’s ugly, you get an impression.’
