Overview

• Ferrara prosecutors placed two physicians under investigation on suspicion of falsifying clinical charts in episodes linked to alleged mistreatment in the Argenta facility.
• Nurse Matteo Nocera was arrested in July and is accused of the aggravated voluntary murder of an 83-year-old patient through the alleged administration of Esmeron.
• Prosecutors describe Esmeron as a neuromuscular blocker used to facilitate intubation that can be lethal without artificial respiration.
• The alleged falsifications concern cases other than the 83-year-old’s death, including a chart noting a patient had “fallen asleep” and a prescription entered after a sedative was already given.
• Nocera also faces accusations of habitual unauthorized sedation, injuring a patient with a scalpel, and leaving a shift to treat a doctor’s relative, with ongoing inquiries by the Ferrara prosecutor’s office, Carabinieri, and NAS.