Author/Authors :
Najari, Fares Department of Forensic Medicine - School of Medicine - Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran , Malekpour-Alamdari, Nasser Department of General Surgery - Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran , Baradaran Kial, Ideh Karaj Forensic Medicine Organization, Karaj, Iran , Najari, Dorsa School of Medicine - Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran , Mirzaei, Sahar School of Nursing and Midwifery - Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Abstract :
Any surgical or preoperative treatment and diagnostic procedure may be associated with complications and
risks. Therefore, introduction of complicated cases plays an important role in educating those involved in the
diagnosis of patients. Generally, if a physician or a nurse is informed that an item is inadvertently left behind in
a patient’s body during surgery, he/she is obliged to take action by notifying the healthcare system authorities
and informing the patient as soon as possible; otherwise, he/she has committed a disciplinary violation. Here
we present a 27-year-old female patient with a history of renal failure with prolonged fever following a retained
Shaldon catheter in a patient’s chest.
Keywords :
Catheters , catheterization , central venous , malpractice , renal dialysis , foreign bodies , fever
