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Blood transfusion infections: It is the health facility that must prove that it has worked diligently.

  • 28/04/2021

The Court of Cassation, with order of 22 April 2021, n. 10592 established that, in the dispute between the patient who assumes to have contracted an infection as a result of a blood transfusion, and the health facility where the latter was performed, it is not the burden of the former to attach and prove that the hospital has held a negligent or imprudent conduct in the acquisition and perfusion of plasma, but it is the responsibility of the second to attach and demonstrate that they have respected the legal regulations and the leges artis that govern the aforementioned activities.

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