Public hospitals in Hong Kong listed 49 serious accidents this year, the highest number of cases in recent years. Incidents include situations where medical equipment was left behind inside patients after surgery.
One more serious incident happened when a 6-inch tube was left inside a patient’s head after brain surgery. The patient had to have a secondary surgery to remove the piece of medical equipment. Another incident saw a piece of pipe from a pump detach itself in a patient’s liver, once again requiring a secondary surgery to remove the pipe.
Doctors say the increase is due to the complexity of equipment and the number of surgical procedures conducted in Hong Kong this past year.
Twenty of the incidents involved medical equipment left inside patients and 12 of the incidents involved removing tool fragments. Medical staff may not be aware that part of the tool has broken off inside the patient while doing the final count at the end of a surgery. Five other incidents involved medical errors, confusing patient identities or the parts of the body that required the surgery.
There were also 19 incidents of patient suicides while at hospital or during the recovery process.
Medical professionals claim that some of these are new problems that have emerged due to new technology and they are still coming up with solutions.
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