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How surgical instrument get left behind. (In House).

Publication: Clinician Reviews
Publication Date: 01-APR-03 		Format: Online - approximately 494 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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HOSPITAL & SURGICAL UPDATE

Emergency surgeries and procedures with unforeseen changes are more likely to result in retained instruments and sponges than are other operations, report Boston researchers in the New England Journal of Medicine. Additionally, surgical items appear somewhat more likely to be left in patients with high body mass index (BMI) than in patients of normal weight.

In a search for possible risk factors for such mishaps, Gawande and colleagues reviewed...

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