General surgery
We publish case reports as an aid to MPS members, to alert them to pitfalls that have caught their colleagues unawares. We believe that these are an invaluable risk-management tool and, as such, they should be rooted in fact – i.e. based on actual events.
Here are some general surgery cases published in recent editions of Casebook.
- We don't talk anymore - May 2008
- Tracheostomy troubles - May 2008
- Don't doctor the notes - May 2008
- Assume nothing - September 2007
- Enmeshed in complications - May 2007
- Video nasty
- Concerning anaemia
- False reassurance and faulty follow-up
- Warning signs
- Difficult matters of opinion and recall
- The missing belly button
- A galling omission
- No consent, no defence
- Patient was ill-informed
- Damage to hepatic ducts
- Don't stick your neck out
- Deficient investigation of iron deficiency
- Tardy surgical intervention
- Inspect before you inject
- Sample not sent to histology - September 2008