Errors in surgery

Errors in Colorectal Surgery

Surgery has five unique characteristics that set it apart from any other medical specialty 1. Surgery harms before it heals 2. It penetrates the patient ́s body and thus is highly invasive. According to the judgement of Judge Benjamin Cardozo in Schloendorff v Society of New York Hospitals (1914): “a surgeon who performs an operation without patient ́s consent commits an assault” 3. It is fallibl...

Errors in strabismus surgery.

OBJECTIVES To determine the prevalence of and contributing factors for errors in strabismus surgery. METHODS Five hundred seventeen of 1103 strabismus surgeons (46.87%) completed a survey administered during the 2011 American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus national meeting or e-mailed to members of the association. RESULTS One hundred seventy-three strabismus surgeon...

collocation errors in translations of the holy quran

the present study aims at identifying, classifying and analyzing collocation errors made by translators of the holy quran into english.findings indicated that collocationally the most acceptablt translation was done by ivring but the least appropriate one made by pickthall.

Refractive Errors & Refractive Surgery Preferred Practice Pattern®.

Laser eye surgery for refractive errors.

Several laser and non-laser refractive surgical procedures have been used to modify the shape of the cornea and correct myopia, hyperopia, astigmatism, and presbyopia. Introduction of the excimer laser to reshape the cornea has resulted in remarkable developments in the correction of these refractive errors. Combined with other advanced ophthalmological instruments, laser refractive eye surgery...