Complications, Errors, and Surgical Ethics

Surgical Complications of Cochlear Implantation

Cochlear implantation is a method used for the treatment of patients with profound hearing loss. This procedure may the accompanied by some major or minor complications. We evaluated the surgical complications of cochlear implantation in Fars province (south of Iran). A total of 150 patients with cochlear implantation were enrolled in the present study. Most of the patients were pre-lingual chi...

Surgical ethics: surgical virtue and more.

The encounter between a patient and her surgeon is unique for several reasons. The surgeon inflicts pain upon a patient for the patient's own good. An operative intervention is irreducibly personal, such that the decisions about and performance of operations are inseparable from the idiosyncrasies of the individual surgeon. Furthermore, there is a chasm of knowledge between the patient and surg...

Surgical Errors and Safeguards

Surgical Applications and Complications

December, 2003 DOS Times Vol.9, No.6 Background Viscoelastic substances are solutions with dual properties; they act as viscous liquids as well as elastic solids or gels. The ideal viscoelastic substance in ophthalmology should be viscous enough to prevent collapse of the anterior chamber at rest, yet liquid enough to be injected precisely through a small cannula. It should be elastic or shock ...

Inhaled Foreign Bodies: Some Complications and Errors.

The inhalation of a foreign body is a commonplace accident. Most things that 'go the wrong way' are coughed up, aided perhaps by a slap or punch on the back or, when size allows, by tipping the patient upside down. The majority of foreign bodies that are not recovered in this way are removed through the bronchoscope, easily and uneventfully. The technique of bronchoscopic removal and the diffic...