Recently, a 17-year-old sports student in Guangxi underwent various examinations in a hospital in Guangxi because of a bone tumor in his left knee. Then it was determined that surgery was needed to remove the osteoma, but to everyone's surprise, after the operation was completed, the doctor found out that it was the normal tissue of the right knee. As you can see from the picture below, there is a noticeably extra egg-sized lump on the left knee.
However, after the surgery was completed, the doctor found that the normal tissue of the right knee was removed.
As can be seen from the examination list of the 17-year-old boy before the operation, he had done the examination on the left knee joint.
At present, the hospital has also admitted that it did the wrong operation and is willing to take responsibility, and is now negotiating compensation with the family, and the local health commission has intervened to investigate the matter.
There are actually a few questions about this surgery:
All the tests before this surgery were done in the same hospital, and there was no change of hospitals. Generally speaking, such a ridiculous surgical accident rarely happens. This is because the surgeon can see the patient's consultation and various examinations through the hospital system platform. At least have a good idea of the surgery you're about to have.
Secondly, before surgery, the doctor will use a marker pen or other tool to mark the planned surgical site in advance, and also confirm it with the patient or his family. And this doctor is usually performed by a surgeon. If this step is completed, the probability of an error is too small.
Then, during the surgery, the surgeon will check the surgical notice and other documents to check the markings of the surgical site that were previously made. At the same time, it is necessary to check the surgical site with the information such as the surgery notice and confirm the surgical site.
Therefore, it is difficult to imagine such a serious accident under such a strict surgical procedure.
Some netizens joked, is it because the patient was originally face up when he did the operation, but the face down turned out to be face down, so the doctor reversed the left and right, right? But it did happen.
In addition, there was a similar accident before, because when I went to Hospital B for an examination, the doctor copied the medical records and wrote the left and right wrongly, resulting in the removal of the good part during the operation.
Some netizens said that no matter what the reason, this is an unbearable burden for a 17-year-old child. Originally, the child was unfortunate enough, but a good leg was still made like this. It's really distressing. I just don't know if the child's right leg that was cut by mistake can return to normal.
In short, this incident also shows that the hospital still did not implement the surgical process in place, and there were doctors who did not strictly follow the surgical process.
This accident is a profound lesson for all doctors and hospitals. I hope this 17-year-old boy recovers as soon as possible!