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Indefensible error leaves a plate-sized retractor in a patient’s abdomen: HDC

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Indefensible error leaves a plate-sized retractor in a patient’s abdomen: HDC

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Alan
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Monday 14 June 2021, 04:52 PM
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A DHB surgical team did not realise a plate-sized retractor had been left inside a patient
“There is no doubt that an instrument of any sort should not be left in the abdomen” A collective failure by a Waitematā DHB surgical team resul

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