Hospital fined for leaving towel inside patient after surgery

She would have lost double that if it were Brawny

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Hospital fined for leaving towel inside patient after surgery

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Yeah, that'll do it.

shite like this happens more than you would think. Forceps, sponges, scalpels, latex gloves, all sorts of shite gets left in people.

frick that place. I hope they get sued into oblivion and every person in that operating room can never work in healthcare again.

If they did that in mississippi Hospitals would all have to close

Trying to jinx them, too??

This is why we need tort reform to prevent big law suits.

Our ORs do meticulous counts at the beginning and twice at the end of surgical cases like this. I've seen a few off counts but only once was something left inside (shown on X-ray while patient was still under anesthesia) which was remedied before the patient left the OR. Usually off counts are because something fell in trash or under something or the initial count was off.

Why subject a patient to unnecessary radiation exposure when you should be competent enough to count?

Now if they used a towel instead of a lap sponge in the abdominal cavity, to possibly hold back bowel during the procedure, then that is on the Surgical Tech and Circulating Nurse to account for. Usually, you wouldn't count the towel as part of the initial count when setting up for the procedure, as they are mainly used to dry hands and wipe things on the table, or clean the patient post op. But, you are supposed to let everyone in the room know that there is a towel in the cavity, or anything else for that matter, and it should have been notated on the count sheet and the time out board in the OR.