Some Unusual Accidents By Surgeons

In the UK, thousands of operations are performed each year. Most of the time they're completed successfully by fully competent, professional surgeons. But there have been some unusual instances that have been reported when surgery goes horribly wrong. Here are four of rarest, yet they have indeed occurred.

Improper Amputation

When a patient requires an amputation of a limb such as an arm or a leg following traumatic injury or disease, it would seem impossible to cut off the wrong limb. But this happens. Many times the surgeons aren't well informed enough by the other physicians in preliminary conferences. Then they go into the procedure with the helpless patient on the operating table and start hacking off the incorrect appendage. This can result in death for the patient.

Scalpel Left Inside

Just about all operations require the use of one or more scalpels. But after the operation is almost complete, the team of surgeons and nearby nurses in the operating room have to be very careful to fully extract every item that was used on the patient. This includes sterile gauze and all the surgical instruments, especially the scalpel. But scalpels have indeed been left inside patients, always due to the surgical team simply overlooking the fact that it was still inside before sewing him up. This could lead to serious infection or death.

Not Enough Anesthesia

If the anesthesiologist is overtired or simply not concentrating when he's supplying the patient with anesthesia, he can easily under dose the patient. He might still be able to make him fall asleep and go unconscious, but if he doesn't administer enough analgesic through either the patent's veins or through the gas mask, the patient can actually feel the significant pain of the surgery. And his body is usually too paralyzed to respond or even speak because his vocal cord muscles also usually become paralyzed.

This can be absolutely disastrous for the patient because the pain can be excruciating. And if the anesthesiologist continues to be unaware that he didn't administer enough anesthesia to the patient, he could be risking the patient's life as well. The opposite unusual accident is giving too much anesthesia. This can also kill the patient by casing both brain toxicity and stopping both the heart and lungs from ever functioning again.

Wrong Operation

This rare occurrence has happened in many different hospitals in the UK. It could be the result of a serious miscommunication between surgeons and administrative personnel before the operation, or it simply could be surgeon error wherein he mixes up the procedures to be performed. Usually this occurs because he has too much on his mind. He may be thinking of a previous operation that day that didn't go well, perhaps one in which the patient died.

This lack of concentration and focus severely jeopardizes the helpless patient lying prone on the operating table. And if the other surgeons and nurses follow the head surgeon's lead with the wrong operation, then no one is there to prevent it from proceeding to completion. This frightening event can definitely harm or even kill the patient.

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