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Surgical Errors

How doctors try to prevent wrong-site surgery

Wrong-site surgery is a never event. It is a serious medical error that should never occur. It can lead to disabilities, long-term health issues and many other complications for patients. It is one of the most serious examples of medical malpractice.  Doctors must try...

3 complications caused by items left inside patients post-surgery

Surgical errors are relatively rare. Most procedures do not result in any major complications. Even when they do, they are often unpredictable issues, such as a poor response to anesthesia. However, some surgeries have poor outcomes because of mistakes made by the...

Many of the worst surgical errors occur before operations

Despite years of textbook education and then hands-on training, surgeons sometimes make egregious mistakes in operating rooms. Dozens of people every week undergo the wrong procedure or the right procedure performed on the wrong part of their body. Surgeons also...

How foreign objects can be left in the body after surgery

You likely would not expect to wake up from surgery to find a surgeon left a pair of scissors in your body. However, it can happen. It is possible that over one thousand people are victims of retained objects in the body every year. A common type of medical...

Is enough being done about surgeons who are too old to operate?

There’s been a lot of discussion in the media lately around aging and what makes someone “too old” to do a particular job. Often, people must decide that for themselves. However, people aren’t always the best judges of their own limitations as they get older....

Some of the most serious surgical risks arise before an operation

Surgery is innately dangerous because it involves cutting the human body. Even with years of professional training and a precisely controlled environment, countless things can go wrong. Every year, there are thousands of preventable mistakes ranging from the wrong...

There are 2 types of wrong-site surgery

One example of medical malpractice is wrong-site surgery. This can be highly detrimental to the patient, causing them immediate harm that may not be repairable. Even when it can be repaired, it still necessitates a second surgery or further medical treatment. But...

The risk of foreign items left behind is higher in some surgeries

Certain surgical mistakes are so blatant that people might think of them as issues that no longer affect modern medical care. Between specialized training and strict standards maintained by corporate medical employers, there is a lot of pressure on medical...

Wrong-site surgical errors can prove devastating for patients

Most people naturally feel a bit nervous when their physician recommends a surgical procedure. While surgeries generally have very high success rates, there are risks with even the most routine of procedures. The more involved or cutting-edge a procedure is, the...

The impact of surgeon stress on operating room mistakes

Surgeons have a big job. They literally have their patients’ lives in their hands. The complexity of surgical procedures combined with the critical nature of the operating room (OR) environment can lead to significant stress among surgeons. This stress, if not managed...

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