The 2 year old boy who fell into the pool dies, the shock and the resuscitation at the side of the pool. The reconstruction

The clinical situation of the 2-year-old child a he took the risk of drowning in a swimming pool in a private village in Formello, on the outskirts of Rome, as the doctors report, it is very bad. Hospitalized in the pediatric intensive care unit of the Gemelli polyclinic led by Professor Giorgio Conti, the little boy has “extensive cerebral suffering” linked to “prolonged circulatory arrest” after his drowning.

How is the baby Formello?

Basically, the little boy’s heart started beating again after several minutes. From what we learned, therefore the child would not have stayed in the water for just a few seconds. He spent the night intubated and mechanically ventilated under deep pharmacological sedation and therapeutic hypothermia. The prognosis is completely mysterious and remains so today.

What happened in the city

From the dynamics reconstructed by the police, the child and his parents – of Moldovan origin – had arrived at the house of some fellow friends late in the morning. They wanted a Saturday in company, they had just lit the barbecue and were setting the table. The 2-year-old boy would have walked away from his parents without them noticing. Apart from him there were no children in the house.

Revived by rescuers

It is not clear if the little boy dived or stumbled, surely the parents who did not see him anymore were looking for him and found him already unconscious in the pool. At that point the race against time began. Someone pulled the little guy out of the tub and tried some movements to make him breathe again, others immediately called for help.

The 118 doctors who rushed to resuscitate the child got his heartbeat back. Then, once it is introduced, the emergency helicopter flight to Gemelli. The police, who listened to the parents and their friends, proceeded to investigate the matter, nothing was seized from the house. The hypothesis is that it is a freak accident. In any case, information will be sent to the prosecutor’s office, with the magistrates who will evaluate whether to take action for the parents’ failure to lead.