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Nagoya University hospital left gauze inside woman's body for 44 years

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"the hospital concluded there is a high possibility that the doctors forgot to remove the gauze."

You think?

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The WHO have excellent guidelines for Operating Theatre Care, with a pre-op briefing, peri-operative briefing and post-operative confirmation. Swab (packing or absorbent gauze) count is just one of them. Many surgeons are just arrogant, and don't like being told what to do by an OR nurse or coordinator, but they have been shown to reduce OR errors by around 80%. They are based on airline pilots' checklists, and were devised originally by a surgeon Atul Gwande.

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Oh no nagoya uni! Anyway they will definitely find more malpractice when they look closer.

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Actually that would be a Surgery-Nurse miss, as they prepare all the instruments(hundreds for some surgeries) beforehand and also need to keep track of swabs, etc, etc.

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Would this kind of foreign object not show up in a scan? What were her doctors doing every time she went to them to complain about this chronic pain?

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... So they ruined 40 years of her life, and caused her to get a tumour, instead of a healing...

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@Maria

What they ALWAYS do. Sell you medicine, and perform “checks” that bring in income.

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