| Literature DB >> 12073114 |
M V Price1, S Molloy, M C Solan, A Sutton, D M Ricketts.
Abstract
The current study investigates instrument breakages during both emergency and elective orthopaedic surgery. Over a 2 year period a total of 7,775 procedures were performed. We found that 14 instruments were broken during 12 operative cases. Drill bits accounted for the largest proportion of breakages (11/14), and a specialist registrar was the lead surgeon in the majority (8/12) of cases. Only one case had a consultant as the lead surgeon. In seven cases the broken bit of the surgical instrument was left in the patient. Documentation of this peri-operative complication was deficient, and the patient was often not informed.Entities:
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Year: 2002 PMID： 12073114 PMCID： PMC3620883 DOI： 10.1007/s00264-002-0344-6
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Int Orthop ISSN： 0341-2695 Impact factor: 3.075