SURGICAL TOOLS
Many Left In Patients
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) LONDON. Jan. 27. At least 35 swabs and instruments were left inside patients after operations last year, says the “Daily Herald,” commenting on publication in the “Nursing Times,” the official journal of the Royal College of Nursing, of a new safety code. The code has been prepared for the defence of doctors who are sued. The “Nursing Times” says the complexities of modern techniques demand larger and larger teams of surgeons. nurses, anaesthetists and technicians, and all of them may have a vital pert to play. But their very presence crowding round a small operating table magnifies the difficulties of counting swabs and checking instruments.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30042, 29 January 1963, Page 13
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