What happens in the operating room after a patient is put to sleep?
The individuals handling anesthesia or performing surgery might surprise you
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Surgery
U.S. government joins civil lawsuit over hospital and surgeon's operating room safety issues
False Claims Act lawsuit alleges pattern of major patient safety breaches
Retained surgical sponges and medical malpractice
Operating room personnel, radiologists may be at fault
Closed claims show common allegations of neurosurgical medical malpractice
Poor surgical technique tops the list
The risks of Texas plastic/cosmetic surgery tourism
Complications are more difficult to handle remotely
Should physician assistants handle spinal surgery consults
Trauma surgeon orders consult for paraplegia, PA responds to see patient instead of spine surgeon
Bowel perforation is a known complication of laparoscopic abdominal surgery that must be diagnosed and repaired promptly
Houston's First Court of Appeals enters opinion allowing medical malpractice case to proceed
Esophageal perforation management and medical malpractice
Most of the time, a perforated esophagus is caused by a surgeon, physician or health care provider
Closed claims show common bariatric/weight loss surgery medical malpractice trends
It's important to check out the surgeon and surgical facility before proceeding with bariatric surgery
Wrong patient taken to kidney transplant surgery
Wrong patient, wrong site, wrong procedures are all sentinel events that should never happen