Vital Signs: Surgical Errors Continue Despite Protocols

Tuesday, October 19, 2010 - 12:50 in Health & Medicine

Though hospitals must follow a standard set of procedures, researchers found “catastrophic events” like a chest tube being put into the wrong lung, a healthy ovary being removed and the wrong vertebrae being fused.

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