This alert describes an incident of foreign body retention following removal of an implant for a left tibia fracture. The fracture 2 years ago had been fixed with a locking plate. Patient underwent ...
This alert describes a surgical incident where a prosthesis implant was placed in the wrong body part. A patient was to undergo a bilateral total knee replacement. After implanting the prosthesis ...
This alert discusses the decreased incidence of surgical fires, incidence of harm, site and source of fire, contributing factors and some risk mitigation strategies. An updated report on the ...