2023-09-04 14:08:55
A wound retractor was found in the abdomen of a New Zealand woman a year and a half after a caesarean operation when she gave birth at Auckland Hospital.
It is an original story to say the least that took place in 2020. Operated by cesarean section during her delivery at Auckland hospital, a New Zealand woman in her twenties suffered for a year and a half from chronic abdominal pain. No one would have imagined that a surgical instrument the size of a dinner plate had been mistakenly left inside his abdomen.
Following an initial investigation, the organization The Auckland Live Networkformerly Auckland District Health Boardasserted that he “did not fail to exercise reasonable skill and care for the patient».
But this Monday, September 4, Morag McDowell, New Zealand Commissioner for Health and Disability, estimated that The Auckland Live Network had breached the code of patient rights, reports the British newspaper The Guardian .
“The care provided was not up to par”
«There are many precedents to conclude that when a foreign body is left inside a patient during an operation, the care provided has not been up to proper standards.“, could read our colleagues in the report of Morag McDowell.
The wound retractor “Alexis», «the size of a dinner plate“and designed”for retracting incisions up to 17 cm in diameterwas not detectable by X-ray. In 2021, the pain of the young woman was so strong that she went to the emergency services of the hospital of the city of Auckland. The device was then discovered.during an abdominal CT scan“says the report.
The surgical instrument was finally removed from the young woman’s abdomen around eighteen months after the initial operation and after several visits to her GP.
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