Week 5: Reply to Lorraine Trathen

Week 5: Reply to Lorraine Trathen

Reply to Lorraine Trathen's Post

Foreign objects can be retained in any part of the body after a surgical procedure, however, such surgical instruments are being increasingly left behind in the thorax or the abdominal cavity. The patient can potentially develop several diseases which rises the morbidity and mortality rates, and retention of foreign objects is also a leading cause for misdiagnosis.The post by Lorraine Trathen discusses the crucial topic of Foreign Object Retention and provides several suggestions to improve the rate of these medical incidences. There are several reasons for the ...