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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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