The death of Domenico: an anesthesiologist, he was retransplantable until mid-January

He confirmed to the investigators that little Domenico Caliendo, until mid-January, despite being under extracorporeal oxygenation (i.e. connected to the ECMO), presented clinical conditions such as to allow a new transplant: this is what the anesthesiologist Carmela Scarpati speaks, who in recent days was heard by the prosecutor Giuseppe Tittaferrante of the Naples prosecutor's office as part of the investigation into the child's death, for which seven Neapolitan health workers and two from Bolzano.

According to what he reported, up until that date the lungs were ventilating well, there were no neurological, hepatic or renal complications or even infections.

The doctor was on the list of users of the "heroes" chat acquired by the investigators and on which several health workers exchanged considerations on the sensational case of the almost two and a half year old child who died in Monaldi on 21 February.

The doctor kept the child's health conditions under constant control during his stay in intensive care.

Responding to the prosecutor's questions, he stated that, according to what he had learned, the use of the Berlin Heart (artificial heart), thanks to which Domenico would have had more chances (according to the consultants of the Caliendo-Mercolino family but also according to the investigating judge's experts, with the evidentiary incident report being around 80% in the event of a new transplant) had been immediately discarded by the first operator Guido Oppido.

The doctor, still chatting, expressed her intention to resign in mid-February as she feared being chosen to take on the role of anesthetist for a second transplant which was being discussed despite the fact that Domenico's health conditions had now significantly worsened: pulmonary ventilation was compromised, there was liver and kidney failure, and shortly before his death there were also haemodynamic decompensations.