olasaad:


Don't you think there should be another scan after CS in order for you to check again if you have forgotten foreign objects inside the patient.

Keeping track of what's used in the first place does that. It's a person's job to count and double count.

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.

My thought too. A friend's sister undergone surgery for appendicitis, and after about a year, she was always crying and hold the area where the stitches was.

She was taken back to the hospital only to find out a small scissors-like object was forgotten inside her.

Doctors dey try shaa.

I opened buhari brain and I found Nothing

DropsMic:
Human Hair, Empty Shampoo Packets was found in a small girl's Belle

the hair could be as a result of Rapunzel syndrome

proclinician:
There's a lot of reasons why this may happen but money is not one as this is a very costly mistake. While hospitals have developed methods to keep track of sponges and other surgical items, in practice, there are several factors that contribute to this issue. This problem is especially likely to occur if the surgery is an emergency procedure, is very long, or has complications arise in the course of it. A sponge soaked in blood is also easily overlooked in a visual inspection.
If its the same hospital responsible for the retaining of the material also carried out the removal there's no billing but if a different hospital the patient may have to pay and will be advised on how to take it up as a medicolegal issue and get compensated and the surgeon responsible for the mistake may be punished.

Why don't you people count how items you brought to the theater and recount before stitching the person? See, I will go physical if it happens to a family member.

EVILFOREST:
FIRST;
I FOUND NAIL and was removed endoscopically.

SECOND was a TOY BEAD impacted at the Tracheoesophageal junction of a CHILD, which led to respiratory embarrassment.

THIRD, was a macerated Gauze Bandage left inadvertently in the peritoneal cavity of a patient who later came down with a high output enterocutaneous (faecal) fistula.

And you think we understand?

Mehn..May God continue to give us good health ooo

They can be sued in tort you know
For unliquidated dameges.

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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. [/quote]

proclinician:


Keeping track of what's used in the first place does that. It's a person's job to count and double count.

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

greyce:
Reminds me of Grey's anatomy,very mad series

I always wished I could be a doctor.

You can still pursue your dreams if you believe in yourself. Don't give up

Olumighty123:


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

Like you said. Unusual mistake. I know they trained for it but its not easy keeping a laser accuracy for hours of standing and ocassionally shifting from trying to fix the target problem and trying to keep the patient alive cos of unforseen complications.

Its not easy. Knew a surgeon who fainted cos of lack of sugar. Dude been working 12hrs straight.

Thanks. Brilliant. Touche.

proclinician:
There's a lot of reasons why this may happen but money is not one as this is a very costly mistake. While hospitals have developed methods to keep track of sponges and other surgical items, in practice, there are several factors that contribute to this issue. This problem is especially likely to occur if the surgery is an emergency procedure, is very long, or has complications arise in the course of it. A sponge soaked in blood is also easily overlooked in a visual inspection.
If its the same hospital responsible for the retaining of the material also carried out the removal there's no billing but if a different hospital the patient may have to pay and will be advised on how to take it up as a medicolegal issue and get compensated and the surgeon responsible for the mistake may be punished.

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

Gauze sponges, yes! It's a commonplace

Even native doctors/ritualists are coming here to have a field day by spewing thrash. The thread said SURGEONS!

I once worked with a vet who lost his wife to something similar. Doctors at UCH forgot hand towel in her after closing her up.
She had serious pains and she was taken to another hospital for scan where the foreign body was discovered in her but she couldn't make past surgery to remove the towel.

condom

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

Yes very possible. But truly in a setup like the picture below the orderly or the assistant keeps track of what is handed over to the surgeon or the med/surg nurse to use but some in some hospitals a surgeon may just take one or two nurses to assist him in the theatre and an oversight may occur.

My eyes have seen and my ears have heard.
Way back during my Housemanship we had this copa(Corps member aka NYSC) serving in one of the Ogoni LGAs in Rivers State. She had CS, but developed abdominal abscess few weeks after the CS. Her wound was healed but her abdomen was swollen and firm with severe pain/tenderness. Vomiting and spike in temperature was a mainstay for her and she was rushed to BMSH. She was admitted under my surgical team, as the houseman I took her history from the A&E and placed her on NPO, fluid and antibiotics cover until the surgeon came.
We sent her for abdominal USS, but the scan was showing that it was an abscess.

We rushed her for operation(exploratory laparostomy) with an Obstetrician present, only for us to open her up to our greatest surprise we found a surgical towel that was used to pack her intestines. Crazy stuff.

I'm glad that lady survived and we've been friends till date

akpunda86:
During one surgery in aso clinic we removed wads of dollars from one of PDP pigs abdomen.well it was in thousands of dollars.was shared among us.infact good luck jonathan needs to be castrated.Why is olisa metuh still a free man.he needs to go and stay with his room mate orji kalu.
Buhari might not be the best but since 1999 he is the best.massive construction in all parts of the country.

Nigerian surgeons are sucide bombers.we have no doctors in Nigeria just few.Quacks parading as doctors.a surgeon that can't even operate A fowl now touching a human.
SUCIDAL DOCTORS EVERYWHERE

Such rubbish must you turn everything into politics. Mtchheeew

post=86882104:
[s]Our Official Doctor @[/b] was telling us all some weeks ago about how they found a big rotten cucumber inside the private part of an individual.

The individual refuses to seek medical attention early due to shame or shyness....the incident happened during the act of [b]MASTURBATION[/s]!

Una official Doctor?

fake life kill you there.

News about a lady that cucumber mistakingly entered her when she was toughing herself.
The news was everywhere not only on Nairaland forum.

lai lai Muhammad junior. Well done.

Our official Doctor?
And some mumu people go believe this your big lying on Sunday morning like this...

You no dey shame!

chatinent:
No one can be trusted on this; some deliberately leave it there...you know, for a return visit.

Human body no be mechanic job naaa

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

who ask u? keep quiet let doctors answer

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

Arghhhh!!!!! Goshhhhh!!!!!

I heard some people have butterfly in their tommy n it makes them happy n smiling

Nails,pins and needles.
Dude was a mentally ill patient.

xreal:


To remove kidney?

That was copied off quora hence the confusion.

Olumighty123:


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

Possibly because they blend into the....






OK, I don't know. Proclinician, can you throw more light on this?

AuroraB:
who pays for the second procedure I wouldn't...

So it's the money that's important than the life at stake abi?

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.

pls which hospital

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

I've come across it on quora. The op lifted the story + the friend ish off there.

I found condoms in one ashawo stomach wey I do major operation.