A case that started this morning at 7:30am did not end until 3pm. It was supposed to be a 2 hour case. It was a double procedure and started with taking out the ovaries of a women.
It was being done laparoscopically and as I watched the screen I gasped when i saw what looked like a big hairball next to the ovary. Well, it WAS a big hairball. It was a teratoma, a benign tumor that is from several different tissues and can range from anything like hair, teeth, endocrine tissue, etc. Gross.
After that, we closed her up and repositioned her. We had to take out one of her kidneys because it was non functional and was getting severely infected. This was only supposed to take a couple hours but things did not go according to plan. The patient received several blood transfusion during the surgery and after calling a couple surgeons in to help, everything was repaired and the patient did fine. Just goes to show you how in one second, things can change. Episodes like this help us to remember that things dont always go perfectly and though each day things may go smoothly, it just one second someone who potentially die.
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