{"id":2029,"date":"2025-11-14T01:22:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T00:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/machala247.com\/?p=2029"},"modified":"2025-11-14T01:34:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T00:34:08","slug":"guayaquil-mujer-simulo-ser-medica-para-cometer-asalto-en-la-avenida-narcisa-de-jesus-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/machala247.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/14\/guayaquil-mujer-simulo-ser-medica-para-cometer-asalto-en-la-avenida-narcisa-de-jesus-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Cirujano y anestesi\u00f3loga sentenciados por homicidio culposo tras muerte de paciente en cl\u00ednica de Quito"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"top md:col-span-2\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-wrap\">\n<div class=\"basis-full md:basis-2\/5 z-100 content-center p-1\">\n<div class=\"story-introtext afacad-flux font-light text-base md:ml-6 pb-2\">Lo que comenz\u00f3 como una cirug\u00eda est\u00e9tica termin\u00f3 en tragedia: \u201cCarlos\u201d muri\u00f3 tras una lipoescultura mal ejecutada en una cl\u00ednica del norte de Quito. Tres a\u00f1os despu\u00e9s, un Tribunal sentenci\u00f3 por homicidio culposo al cirujano pl\u00e1stico y a la anestesi\u00f3loga.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"body md:order-3 afacad-flux font-normal text-lg px-2\">\n<p>Lo que deb\u00eda ser una\u00a0<strong>cirug\u00eda est\u00e9tica de rutina<\/strong>\u00a0termin\u00f3 en tragedia. El\u00a0<strong>28 de marzo de 2022<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>\u201cCarlos\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0(nombre protegido) ingres\u00f3 a una\u00a0<strong>cl\u00ednica<\/strong>\u00a0del\u00a0<strong>centro norte de Quito<\/strong>\u00a0para practicarse una\u00a0<strong>lipoescultura de brazos y t\u00f3rax<\/strong>\u00a0y nunca sali\u00f3 con vida. Tres a\u00f1os despu\u00e9s, un\u00a0<strong>Tribunal de Garant\u00edas Penales<\/strong>\u00a0sentenci\u00f3 al\u00a0<strong>cirujano pl\u00e1stico Byron Hern\u00e1n S. A.<\/strong>\u00a0y a la\u00a0<strong>anestesi\u00f3loga Mar\u00eda Victoria I. A.<\/strong>\u00a0a\u00a0<strong>un a\u00f1o de prisi\u00f3n<\/strong>\u00a0por el delito de\u00a0<strong>homicidio culposo por mala pr\u00e1ctica profesional<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Adem\u00e1s de la\u00a0<strong>pena privativa de libertad<\/strong>, el Tribunal orden\u00f3 que cada uno pague\u00a0<strong>12.500 d\u00f3lares<\/strong>\u00a0como medida de\u00a0<strong>reparaci\u00f3n integral<\/strong>\u00a0a los\u00a0<strong>familiares de la v\u00edctima<\/strong>, al considerar probada su responsabilidad en la cadena de\u00a0<strong>errores m\u00e9dicos<\/strong>\u00a0que derivaron en la muerte del paciente. La causa se tramit\u00f3 bajo el\u00a0<strong>art\u00edculo 146, inciso primero, del C\u00f3digo Org\u00e1nico Integral Penal (COIP)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Durante la\u00a0<strong>audiencia de juzgamiento<\/strong>, la\u00a0<strong>Fiscal\u00eda<\/strong>\u00a0present\u00f3 el testimonio del\u00a0<strong>m\u00e9dico legista<\/strong>\u00a0que practic\u00f3 la\u00a0<strong>autopsia<\/strong>. El experto concluy\u00f3 que el hombre, de 36 a\u00f1os, sufri\u00f3\u00a0<strong>muerte cerebral<\/strong>\u00a0a causa de una\u00a0<strong>mala pr\u00e1ctica<\/strong>, y se\u00f1al\u00f3 que las acciones ejecutadas por el cirujano y la anestesi\u00f3loga fueron\u00a0<strong>\u201cileg\u00edtimas, innecesarias y peligrosas\u201d<\/strong>, pues no constaban en\u00a0<strong>protocolos<\/strong>\u00a0ni\u00a0<strong>gu\u00edas de actuaci\u00f3n m\u00e9dica<\/strong>, lo que termin\u00f3 provocando el deceso.<\/p>\n<p>El\u00a0<strong>informe pericial<\/strong>\u00a0estableci\u00f3 que la muerte de \u201cCarlos\u201d estuvo directamente relacionada con el\u00a0<strong>procedimiento de liposucci\u00f3n<\/strong>, al evidenciarse\u00a0<strong>laceraciones en el m\u00fasculo tor\u00e1cico<\/strong>\u00a0que ocasionaron\u00a0<strong>traumatismos en los vasos sangu\u00edneos<\/strong>. A ello se sum\u00f3 la\u00a0<strong>inobservancia de los est\u00e1ndares de cuidado<\/strong>: los procesados habr\u00edan esperado alrededor de\u00a0<strong>dos horas y media<\/strong>\u00a0para trasladar al paciente a una\u00a0<strong>casa de salud de mayor complejidad<\/strong>, pese a la gravedad de su estado.<\/p>\n<p>El\u00a0<strong>m\u00e9dico internista<\/strong>\u00a0de la cl\u00ednica, llamado como testigo de la Fiscal\u00eda, declar\u00f3 bajo juramento que al evaluar al paciente determin\u00f3 que su cuadro era\u00a0<strong>irreversible<\/strong>\u00a0y que requer\u00eda un ingreso urgente a una\u00a0<strong>unidad de cuidados intensivos<\/strong>, por lo que dispuso su\u00a0<strong>transferencia a otro hospital<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>En la audiencia tambi\u00e9n intervinieron un\u00a0<strong>perito anestesi\u00f3logo<\/strong>, una especialista en\u00a0<strong>histopatolog\u00eda<\/strong>\u00a0y un experto en\u00a0<strong>cardiolog\u00eda<\/strong>. Todos coincidieron en que hubo\u00a0<strong>negligencia<\/strong>\u00a0en el procedimiento y que se vulner\u00f3 el\u00a0<strong>deber objetivo de cuidado<\/strong>\u00a0hacia el paciente.<\/p>\n<p>La\u00a0<strong>madre de \u201cCarlos\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0relat\u00f3 que acompa\u00f1\u00f3 a su hijo el d\u00eda de la cirug\u00eda y que lo vio ingresar al\u00a0<strong>quir\u00f3fano<\/strong>\u00a0en buen estado de salud. Asegur\u00f3 que hubo\u00a0<strong>inacci\u00f3n<\/strong>\u00a0por parte del cirujano y la anestesi\u00f3loga, as\u00ed como\u00a0<strong>tardanza en el traslado<\/strong>\u00a0a un\u00a0<strong>hospital de primer nivel<\/strong>, lo que, sumado a las fallas t\u00e9cnicas del procedimiento, termin\u00f3 por truncar la vida de su hijo.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lo que comenz\u00f3 como una cirug\u00eda est\u00e9tica termin\u00f3 en tragedia: \u201cCarlos\u201d muri\u00f3 tras una lipoescultura mal ejecutada en<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-el-oro"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/machala247.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/59a67f990fd298ecd058bf6f28b2b3b5_XL.jpg",1200,810,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/machala247.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/59a67f990fd298ecd058bf6f28b2b3b5_XL-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/machala247.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/59a67f990fd298ecd058bf6f28b2b3b5_XL-300x203.jpg",300,203,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/machala247.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/59a67f990fd298ecd058bf6f28b2b3b5_XL-768x518.jpg",640,432,true],"large":["https:\/\/machala247.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/59a67f990fd298ecd058bf6f28b2b3b5_XL-1024x691.jpg",640,432,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/machala247.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/59a67f990fd298ecd058bf6f28b2b3b5_XL.jpg",1200,810,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/machala247.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/59a67f990fd298ecd058bf6f28b2b3b5_XL.jpg",1200,810,false],"morenews-featured":["https:\/\/machala247.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/59a67f990fd298ecd058bf6f28b2b3b5_XL-1024x691.jpg",1024,691,true],"morenews-large":["https:\/\/machala247.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/59a67f990fd298ecd058bf6f28b2b3b5_XL-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"morenews-medium":["https:\/\/machala247.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/59a67f990fd298ecd058bf6f28b2b3b5_XL-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Machala 247","author_link":"https:\/\/machala247.com\/index.php\/author\/danielmorocho\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/machala247.com\/index.php\/category\/el-oro\/\" rel=\"category tag\">El Oro<\/a>","tag_info":"El Oro","comment_count":"0","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/machala247.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/59a67f990fd298ecd058bf6f28b2b3b5_XL.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgQ5hh-wJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/machala247.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/machala247.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/machala247.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/machala247.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/machala247.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2029"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/machala247.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2032,"href":"https:\/\/machala247.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029\/revisions\/2032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/machala247.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/machala247.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/machala247.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/machala247.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}