To err is human, they say to excuse him. It is much less obvious when the error arises in the preparation for surgery.
It’s the Parisian who publishes this figure and who finds it low. However, it has become an obligation for professionals to declare their mistakes since March. We can also go in the direction of everyday life and think that it is very underestimated, when we read an article in a specialized magazine. Its title: “How not to get the wrong site, procedure or patient”. Clearly, the site is the place where the surgeon intervenes; not the room, but the part of your body that it is supposed to repair.
We sometimes learn in the media that some surgeons take the wrong place or, as recently, that they forget a compress; this is not anecdotal, and that is moreover why there is a procedure: the procedure is the normal course of the intervention; that is, if the surgeon has to tighten the tendon of a finger, and instead, he removes the finger: this is called a procedural error … This article says: to have the wrong patient, you will understand, it is the big mistake. We thought, wrongly, that these problems were too huge to exist, but that is why doctors decided to write a reference document which in medicine is called a universal consensus adopted by dozens of learned societies. and medical organizations.
We could therefore begin to be reassured, but reading this consensus is a little less so, because the first points of this document are frighteningly banal – such as: it is better to operate on the right patient, in the right place and with the right technique – it’s nice to point out. Another precaution: mark the patient …
For, I quote, unambiguously identify the intended site of the incision.
The surgeon is always there to reassure you
It’s very theoretical. Since it is likely that you will not go to the surgeon who is going to operate on you. He will arrive as soon as you are asleep and ready, allowing him to do several interventions in the same morning. This is why we must insist on a fundamental character during an intervention: the anesthesiologist.
It is he who turns all the lights to green. And he is often, during the intervention, an objective witness to what is happening.
So even if it is not specified in the procedure, if one day you have to have an operation, it does not cost anything to ask the person who puts you to sleep to remind him / her why you are there, why to do it, and above all, where the surgeon intends to plant his scalpel.
If the answers are correct, you can fall asleep reassured.
More and more interventions are recorded
All interventions are recorded in the United States, and increasingly in France. But make no mistake, it is not for the patient, to explain the procedure to him and provide him with a souvenir, but quite simply because there are more and more lawsuits to extract money from them, to protect the patient. surgeon of dishonest recourse by his patient. And it must be recognized that in the United States, crooked law firms had made it their specialty.
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