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Surgical Errors Part I: Leaving Tools In The Patient’s Body
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Description: 4/3/07 I went to a talk by Dr. Atul Gawande, a surgeon, author and professor at Harvard. He did a study looking at why doctors accidentally leave sponges, tools in a patient during surgery, calle…
8 Comments
October 9th, 2009 at 9:57 pm
with the surgical staff hand counting the instruments though…that should be fool proof. more than one person should count the instruments so there is no conflict of interest involved in the closing of the procedure.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:13 pm
Hi, Thank for uploading these videos – very helpful. I have known a case of leaving a needle in a cancer patent after a mastectomy, a friend of mine mentioned it a few years ago becouse it was his wife. It caused extreame pain and after an xray it was noticed and retrieved.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:22 pm
OMG..I would be so pissed at myself If I ever did that to someone on accident…
October 9th, 2009 at 11:16 pm
Thank you for this video. I am an OR nurse and this will help me when a surgeon ARGUES with me when I tell him we need to take an Xray before waking the patient up
October 9th, 2009 at 11:44 pm
this was great, I just heard a a talk by Atul Gawande on the radio, and then youtubed him and found this video. I really enjoyed it, made a lot of sense
October 10th, 2009 at 12:37 am
Interesting, and sounds very dangerous.Doctors of today are becoming more away of yesterday’s mistakes; yet for the future to have NO mistakes. I love it!
October 10th, 2009 at 1:37 am
thanks for your comment!
October 10th, 2009 at 1:58 am
very interesting, yo, atul gawande is the man