What I don’t understand....this is an OR full of people. The surgeon(s), anesthesiologists, nurses...idk, orderlies and so forth. There has to be a chart or a monitor or something listing the procedure. And they’re all just standing there watching the lead surgeon remove a liver instead of a spleen??
Sure, it’s on the doc but imo, the facility is also to blame for sloppy operating protocols.
It’s not an excuse, but with the procedure being laproscopic, the field of view is narrow enough that a nonsurgeon might not recognize which organ was being removed. I also wonder if the patient had Situs Inversus ( where the liver and spleen are on opposite sides from normal.
https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/features/112209
Many inter-op complications.
“”””What I don’t understand....this is an OR full of people. The surgeon(s), anesthesiologists, nurses...idk, orderlies and so forth. There has to be a chart or a monitor or something listing the procedure. And they’re all just standing there watching the lead surgeon remove a liver instead of a spleen??
Sure, it’s on the doc but imo, the facility is also to blame for sloppy operating protocols.””””
I agree. I was recently in the hospital for a minor procedure. Before the procedure began, the head operating nurse detailed what the doctor was going to do while I was still awake.
You are right. The hospital will be facing a major malpractice lawsuit.
A doctor would never be removing an entire liver in any case, right?