Avoidable mistakes

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New Delhi, May 18, 2019 :

• Treating the wrong patient

• Surgical souvenirs:

Surgical staff miscounts (or fails to count) equipment used inside a patient during an operation.

• Lost patients:Patients with dementia are sometimes prone to wandering.

• Fake doctors:Con artists pretend to be doctors.

• The ER waiting game: Emergency rooms get backed up when overcrowded hospitals don’t have enough beds.

• Air bubbles in blood:The hole in a patient’s chest isn’t sealed airtight after a chest tube is removed.

• Operating on the wrong body part

• Infection infestation:Doctors and nurses don’t wash their hands.

• Lookalike tubes:A chest tube and a feeding tube can look a lot alike.
• Waking up during surgery:An under-dose of anesthesia.

Author : Dr K K Aggarwal, Padma Shri Awardee.

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