Surgical Errors

New Mexico patients may be interested in learning that a hospital has been fined after a surgeon left a towel inside his abdomen during a surgery. The incident occurred in 2014 at the Community Regional Medical Center. The patient stated that he had his bladder and...

Expectant parents in New Mexico and around the country may believe that the quality of medical care provided by hospitals is generally consistent, but an investigation by CNN has revealed wide discrepancies in the level of infant care in American medical facilities....

Patients who need surgery in New Mexico and throughout the United States can be made safer through methods that combine both a change in culture and a change in systems. What is probably the largest observational study that looked at surgical teams was conducted by...

According to the results of a study done by a leading medical malpractice insurance company, 46 percent of orthopedic surgery medical malpractice claims are related to improper surgical performance, and 16 percent of claims are for improper patient management...

When New Mexico patients go in for surgery, they often do not expect that there may be complications. One complication that can occur is a surgical site infection which, while relatively uncommon, can be harmful. Although surgical site infections can be serious, they...

New Mexico residents might be surprised to learn that more than 10 percent of hospitalized patients suffer an unexpected circumstance such as a preventable infection, a punctured organ or oversedation. While some patients suffer severe injuries as a result, others...

New Mexico residents might be interested in learning more about recent research that shows surgeons' performance may be unaffected from fatigue attributable to working overnight. Researchers from Ontario only tabulated a 0.2 percent difference between physicians who...

As some New Mexico residents may know, surgical mistakes are a small but real risk to patients. One lawmaker is saying that patients should be allowed to record their surgical procedures. In addition, a black box similar to the ones used on airplanes and motor...

New Mexico doctors who are engaged in surgical procedures involving robotic assistance may be interested in a study recently conducted by researchers from MIT, University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana and Rush Medical Center. After analyzing over 10,000 incident...

New Mexico residents may be aware that the medical community has worked earnestly in recent years to reduce the number of mistakes made during surgery. The Universal Protocol was introduced a decade ago to provide a safety standard for surgical procedures, but...