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What do you do when you've experienced a wrong-site, wrong-patient or wrong-procedure surgical error?

• Wrong-side surgery, the Nursing Obligation
• Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Doc Heading to Lefty-Right K-Grade Rehab
• Can nurses be liable for an unconsented surgery?

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What do you do when you've experienced a wrong-site, wrong-patient or wrong-procedure surgical error?

• Florida: Wrong-site, Wrong-patient, Wrong-procedure or "never-events".
• New England Journal of Medicine: A pre-surgical checklist includes the time-out.
• Minnesota Patient Safety Reports - Preventable Errors
• PAMELA G. ROCK vs. WARHANK, BLUE GRASS FAMILY, et. al. - Medical Malpractice Statute of Limitations

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Hospital Safety: Complications of surgery in the UK.

According to one source hospital treatment in the UK causes harm to the patient 10% of the time or 1 out of ten patients admitted.  This was from November 2007 from the BMJ Group.  Some injury is preventable and some just is not.

Some of the preventable problems were:

A mistake during surgery, causing bleeding

A delay in diagnosing a patient with cancer

Not giving preventative medicines to a patient at risk of blood clots

Giving high doses of a powerful painkiller for too long, causing a patient to become addicted.

On average, patients who were harmed by their treatment needed to stay in hospital for 7 or 8 days longer. About 6 in 10 people who suffered harm recovered within a month, but 1 in 10 had permanent disability.

What this tells us is as a patient if admitted figure on staying longer than the doctor says you will be in the hospital.

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