Improved standards are needed to help reduce the risk of surgical swabs being left inside patients after an invasive procedure, according to a report from patient safety investigators. The report ...

A woman developed severe blood poisoning (sepsis) and a liver abscess, after inadvertently swallowing a toothpick, which perforated her gullet and lodged in a lobe of her liver, reveals a case study.

It comes after one woman who had heart surgery had to have further operations to remove two swabs left behind in her chest. Swabs being left in patients after an operation are classed as “never events ...

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AN 81-year-old woman is suing a hospital trust after she was left with four large surgical swabs inside her for two weeks. Margaret Draper underwent surgery to fit a pacemaker at Royal Preston ...

[Liver abscess caused by a toothpick and treated by laprascopic left hepatic resection: case report and literature review 2012 doi 10.1136/bcr-2012-006408] [Gossypiboma as an unusual cause of altered ...

The process used by surgery teams to ensure nothing is left behind in a patient’s body following an operation should be reviewed, the patient safety body has said. It comes after one woman who had ...

She suffered excessive bleeding during the procedure, which required intervention from the surgical team, and has now seeking damages from Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. An NHS ...

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