Benício Case: Witnesses Say Doctor Tried to Alter Record After Fatal Adrenaline Error

Overview

• The lead investigator said at least three hospital witnesses reported that Dr. Juliana Brasil Santos sought to change the medical record to conceal a wrong-route adrenaline prescription.
• Police are treating the death as potential qualified intentional homicide and are assessing whether there was dolo eventual, according to delegate Marcelo Martins.
• The doctor’s lawyers acknowledge an error and argue the hospital’s automated system may have altered the recorded route of administration, a claim the police say only a technical forensic review can confirm.
• In earlier statements to police, one nursing technician said she warned the administering colleague not to give 3 ml of adrenaline intravenously and to use nebulization, and another reported hearing that the drug had been given IV as the child’s condition worsened.
• The nursing technician who administered the doses is suspended by the regional nursing council, and the boy’s parents dispute any system failure, noting that later ICU orders correctly recorded inhalation.