Evaluation of Lawsuit Claims about Retained Foreign Bodies in Curative Actions Referred to Fars Province General Administration of Forensic Medicine from 2011 to 2019
Iranian Journal of Emergency Medicine,
Vol. 9 No. 1 (2022),
16 March 2022
,
Page e27
https://doi.org/10.22037/ijem.v9i1.39533
Abstract
Introduction: Medical errors are a serious problem for healthcare organizations. Although foreign bodies remain after surgery, although it is not a common complication, it is always threatening and can cause serious and dangerous complications for patients. This study has been conducted with the aim of investigating the complaints of residual medical devices referred to the General Department of Forensic Medicine of Fars province from 2011 to 2019.
Method: This study was descriptive-cross-sectional and retrospective. All the complaint files about the devices left during medical treatment referred to the General Department of Forensic Medicine of Fars province from 2011 to 2019 were investigated and the information contained in them was collected and recorded based on the prepared checklist. After data collection, the information was converted into sheet code and analyzed by SPSS version 21 software and descriptive statistical tests.
Result: In this study, 35 cases were examined from 2011 to 2019. 54.3% of the plaintiffs were women and the rest were men. Women's specialty (37.1%) had the highest frequency of complaints about residual devices during treatment, and the most complaints about residual devices were related to caesarean section (37.19%) and inguinal hernia (20%). Almost half of the remaining devices were gas (51.4%). In the majority of complaints, the location of the remaining devices during treatment was in the pelvis (0.40%) and abdomen (37.1%).
Conclusion: Considering the most frequent type of retained foreign bodies and also more frequent involved surgery wards besides detection methods for RFB, a mixed of preventing protocols such as regular counting of devices, post-operative X-ray with radiopaque markers and exact evaluation of surgery site should be employed to reduce the occurrence of retained foreign bodies and its complications.
- Retained foreign bodies
- Forensic Medicine
- Surgery
- Medical error
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