Surgeon Left 16 Items In Body After Routine Surgery, How Does This Happen?

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Surgeon Left 16 Items In Body After Routine Surgery
How Does This Happen?

Have you ever had surgery? Here is a patient that had 16 items left inside, that were not there before. None of us are perfect, but this seems a little ridiculous.

This happened to Dirk Shroeder after prostate cancer surgery in Hanover, Germany.

“A nurse on a home visit in Hanover, Germany, saw a huge gauze pad sticking out from [Dirk Schroeder’s] wound. Surgeons later removed 16 items of operating theatre equipment and supplies from inside Schroeder’s body, including a needle, a six-inch roll of bandage, a six-inch long compress, several swabs and a fragment of surgical mask,” reports Mail Online.

The hospital is claiming he ingested the items, after the surgery?

“I hope the hospital will settle but otherwise the family are prepared to go all the way and sue in court. The family of the deceased spent lots of money on care, medicines and reconstruction of their home to look after this man,” said attorney, Annette Corinth.

Surgeon Left 16 Items In Body After Routine Surgery
How Does This Happen?

There are real consequences to leaving items inside the patient, medical as well as legal and financial.

“The family of the deceased spent lots of money on care, medicines and reconstruction of their home to look after this man,” Corinth added. “There has been gross negligence here which most probably had led to complications and possibly a quicker death.”

There are more than 35 million surgeries every year in the United States. The vast majority of them happen without a hitch. But sometimes an object like a surgical sponge is left inside of a patient. These kinds of mistakes can be life threatening for the patient and expensive for the hospital and surgeons involved. A company with a research arm in San Diego has come up with a high tech solution to the problem.

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Surgeon Left 16 Items In Body After Routine Surgery
How Does This Happen?

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