It is hardly pleasant for someone who decides to lie on the operating table to think that the attending physician can forget some of his instruments in his body.. The well-known American newspaper The New York Times regularly conducts research to identify statistics on such cases, according to the online publication for girls and women from 14 to 35 years old Pannochka. net And as part of the analysis of 2012, it was found that for 3000 operations, doctors in 23 cases forgot their things in patients. In 3 cases, several things were forgotten at the same time. In 2007, there were only 17 cases. Thus, over the past 5 years, doctors have become more careless - scientists admit. And although, this time no one forgot scalpels and tweezers in anyone (and this also happened), nevertheless, the statistics, in which surgical devices remain in a person in 0.7% of cases of operations, is seen by many as a very unpleasant fact..

In the vast majority of cases, according to the report of correspondents of The New York Times, we are talking about gauze swabs..

These are used to absorb blood in certain areas of the operating area.. During one operation, up to several dozens of them can be used.. In recent years, the US healthcare system has introduced a new accounting system for these tampons, they must be specifically counted by a nurse before, during and after surgery.. However, as correspondents of an American newspaper rightly point out, when a person’s life is in the hands of a surgeon and every second everything can go wrong as it was originally planned, such a trifle as accounting for tampons fades into the background..

Moreover, in most cases, such tampons are absolutely harmless to the body.. By the way, this time scientists also made a very interesting observation - it turns out that the risk that you will forget some tool increases by about 70% if you are obese..

Turns out,.

being fat is unprofitable even on the operating table. The surgeons themselves, who commented this time on the study, note that very often tampons become impossible to find in large cavities - they are completely saturated with blood and turn red.. In medical practice, there are cases when doctors knew that there was a tampon somewhere and even actively searched for it, but could not find it..

Vladislav Vorotnikov.

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