A patient has died in California after surgeons at Mercy Medical Center Redding left a sponge in their abdomen, a California Department of Public Health report reveals.
The patient – whose name and gender are unidentified in the report – underwent surgery to bypass a blocked blood vessel in his lower abdomen.
It’s a fairly low-risk, although serious procedure, but for this patient, a miscount of surgical sponges proved fatal.
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