Sentence examples for surgical errors from inspiring English sources

Surgical errors led to redesigns of equipment.

The American health care system puts patients at greater risk of harm from medical or surgical errors than patients elsewhere and ranks behind the top countries in extending the lives of the elderly.

Earlier, the agency cited Staten Island University Hospital for 40 violations and fined it $80,000 for failing to monitor and discipline its chief of neurosurgery, whom the state charged with various serious surgical errors.

Two days earlier, The Times reported on a new study finding that similar standards were inadequate to prevent catastrophic medical errors ("Surgical Errors Continue Despite Protocols," Vital Signs, Science Times, Oct. 19).

It is indicated in the case of well-documented surgical errors.

Most frequent causes involved in the development of postoperative stiffness are related to surgical errors.

About 15 years ago, my husband was scheduled for shoulder surgery ("The Wrong Foot, and Other Tales of Surgical Error," Dec. 11).

Deaths very rarely occur in the operating room due to surgical error and patients may die of something completely unrelated to the surgery during their recovery.

The article "The Wrong Foot, and Other Tales of Surgical Error" (Dec. 11) reminded me of the time I was resuscitated after a back operation in a hospital in England.

Nineteen years ago a Portuguese woman was a victim of a gynaecological surgical error, leaving her with a permanent inability to have sex, as well as urinary incontinence and severe pains.

A year-old baby died in August at Children's Medical Center in Dallas after a surgical error destroyed her liver and doctors tried to save her with a transplant but mistakenly gave her a liver of the wrong blood type, according to a lawsuit filed on Monday.