GAUZE IN HIS ABODOMEN
NEGLIGENCE KILLS PATIENT. London, January 20. Mr George Nichols, a former soldier, underwent an operation in July on his abdomen at a Ministry of Pensions hospital, near Liverpool. He complained afterwards of pain in his abdomen, and died on December 27. A post-mortem examination showed thai a piece of gauze a foot long and eight inches wide, used as a swab, had been left in -the body after the operation. At the inquest a verdict was recorded of death from misadventure by cistiiis, accelerated by the negligent omission to withdraw the gauze. A doctor stated that a leading Liverpool surgeon operated. A crisis arose in the middle of the operation owing to terrific bleeding and shock to the. man's system. It was the sister's duty to count the swabs before and after use. The witness added that he regarded the oversight as a "recognised" accident of surgery.
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Otaki Mail, 12 February 1923, Page 4
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