BRATISLAVA:


How do they "forget" these things inside a person? It seems it's deliberate so that they will have a repeat patient to take it out. Perhaps money is the motivation.

Very likely. And it happens even more in technologically advanced countries than in our own part of the world. Gosh, money is valued more than human life!

Manaria15:
When you have only one doctor doing everything, when I had surgery, at General hospital, the doctors were about 3, excluding the anesthetist, what one could not see his colleagues will see it, it was a team work, and I didn't have any further complications to the Glory of God. From the day I decided to have the surgery I refused private hospital, even though it took me months to be booked, it was worth the wait.

Thank God nothing went wrong. It is way more complex than that. That you didn't have complications had nothing to do with general hospital. Complications happen everywhere and even with several surgeons things can happen

xreal:


To remove kidney?

Yes to remove the kidney, the laser fiber infected the kidney so bad it stop functioning, I'm sure you know human can survive with just one kidney?

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It's actually the job of the scrub nurse to make sure the materials are complete and are accounted for after the surgery.

Olumighty123:


A very unusual mistakes, how on earth do people forget stuffs inside a human during surgery ?

It’s not unusual actual.

Where I work they actually have a dedicated count nurse whose function is to validated that every thing that went into the theatre came back out. Many malpractice suits have taken place.

Okk

yemifez:

You think any doctor in his sane mind would do that? You don't really know the medicolegal implications of that, do you?. And in this case it is not only the surgeon that is at fault but also the scrub nurse whose duty is to count the gauze and ensure that he/ has the same total at the beginning and end of operations. These things happen when there are many emergency cases .I repeat no surgeon will do that deliberately

Olumighty123:


A very unusual mistakes, how on earth do people forget stuffs inside a human during surgery ?

Happens all over the world. It is now very rare but still happens especially in emergencies and very difficult surgeries

olasaad:


Ok but to be on a safer side can a patient still request for another scan a day or two after CS just to be safe. I'm afraid because I'm a lady, and I believe most of the victims were women

Counting during surgery is more reliable than any scan you'll do after surgery.

may320:

Think it's normal to go for post surgery scan. It's always recommended to check if there's no anomaly and to be sure everything is ok. Not talking about Nigeria, don't know if they do that.

It's in very few cases this is required and for very specific reasons.
Always looking for an opportunity to bash Nigeria.

Olumighty123:
I am not a surgeon but I have a friend who is, he was operating on a patient to remove his kidney then he found a laser fiber, a bad surgeon had left it inside during the patient previous surgery.

Stop this kind of heartless plagiarism.
This question was asked on Quora.

https://www.quora.com/As-a-surgeon-what-is-the-most-dangerous-thing-you-have-found-inside-a-patient

You even went as far as claiming to be a friend to the surgeon that answered the question ... please plagiarize with sense

doctore212:
Condom and a tube of KY jelly.

She was an 18yr old from Unical. I published the case in British journal.

Seriously, how do stuff like this get into the body?

A very huge gauze

G

EgunMogaji2:


It’s not unusual actual.

Where I work they actually have a dedicated count nurse whose function is to validated that every thing that went into the theatre came back out. Many malpractice suits have taken place.

it's called a scrub nurse not count nurse

Chartey:
It's in very few cases this is required and for very specific reasons.
Always looking for an opportunity to bash Nigeria.

Dear, I'm a true child of the land.
Not bashing Nigeria in anyway and my post is not intended to. Just stating the obvious since I'm not aware of how it's done by our hospitals here.

All of that have revealed confidential information, we will track you and sue you

Buhari has cow dung inside his head as brain.

proclinician:
In one of my shifts as a resident a woman once gave birth through CS and after discharge and she was supposed to be healing, her abdominal cavity was swelling up and painful and the area in the abdomen that was stitched was bleeding and pus was coming out. She was rushed in when her hubby felt something was not right and a CT scan was ordered. There in the abdominal cavity were some unusual foreign bodies which in a normal human viscera shouldn't be there. She was put into the theatre for an operation and immediately she was opened up there in the abdominal cavity were two gauze sponges used to soak up the bleeding but retained after the CS with massive antibody-antigen reaction taking place there. It was horrible but thank God she lived she was lucky enough sepsis did not occur

This is quite common. At least I've seen exactly the same issh. The reparation surgery occured in SDA hosp. Ife

proclinician:
In one of my shifts as a resident a woman once gave birth through CS and after discharge and she was supposed to be healing, her abdominal cavity was swelling up and painful and the area in the abdomen that was stitched was bleeding and pus was coming out. She was rushed in when her hubby felt something was not right and a CT scan was ordered. There in the abdominal cavity were some unusual foreign bodies which in a normal human viscera shouldn't be there. She was put into the theatre for an operation and immediately she was opened up there in the abdominal cavity were two gauze sponges used to soak up the bleeding but retained after the CS with massive antibody-antigen reaction taking place there. It was horrible but thank God she lived she was lucky enough sepsis did not occur

Aren't they supposed to count the number of gauze sponges used before and after a surgery? How do mistakes like this still happen?

freemi:
who ask u? keep quiet let doctors answer

Mumu!! Who called you?? idiot!

Finchmgh:


Stop this kind of heartless plagiarism.
This question was asked on Quora.

https://www.quora.com/As-a-surgeon-what-is-the-most-dangerous-thing-you-have-found-inside-a-patient

You even went as far as claiming to be a friend to the surgeon that answered the question ... please plagiarize with sense

Busted!

Lmao

kkulaja:


Do you believe some Doctors too are like this, and getting over it gradually.
Imagine a Dr with this kind if phobia and asked to assist a surgeon, and the surgeon leaves d job to her to perfect her hands thus time.

Abi naa!!!

thundafire:
u wear gloves to remove ur pad?

I remove it with the tip of my fingers, I don't look at it. That's how shaken I get whenever I sense the sight of blood...

Dozie32:
How do we know? Are we Dr's?

didn't you read the topic before commenting?

Watching

Lamanii22:



I remove it with the tip of my fingers, I don't look at it. That's how shaken I get whenever I sense the sight of blood...

hmmm but u do wash ur panties wen it gets stained or u still use ur tips to do it

proclinician:
In one of my shifts as a resident a woman once gave birth through CS and after discharge and she was supposed to be healing, her abdominal cavity was swelling up and painful and the area in the abdomen that was stitched was bleeding and pus was coming out. She was rushed in when her hubby felt something was not right and a CT scan was ordered. There in the abdominal cavity were some unusual foreign bodies which in a normal human viscera shouldn't be there. She was put into the theatre for an operation and immediately she was opened up there in the abdominal cavity were two gauze sponges used to soak up the bleeding but retained after the CS with massive antibody-antigen reaction taking place there. It was horrible but thank God she lived she was lucky enough sepsis did not occur

Is this a kind of film looks almost like the "Residents" The Residents is a seasonal movie.

doctore212:
Condom and a tube of KY jelly.

She was an 18yr old from Unical. I published the case in British journal.

Doc link please.

aminusodiq:
craaazzzyyy laddd wait ooo... Is it large or small. Intestine I learnt the small one can be deadly

Large, small, medium size,
every where!!

To worsen matters, we found
kpomó ( as in cowskin), inside
some of the intestines!!

Uyi168:
Topics like this can better be appreciated on platforms like quora..

Even though this is true due to the wider coverage but we need it here too cos it would make nairaland more educated and we have enough Professionals here too

adecz:



We once opened a patient &
found intestines inside his abdominal
cavity!! Intestines fa!!

I'm confused,what are you supposed to find in his abdominal cavity then? Is your intestine in your chest cavity?