If an inexperienced surgeon performs laparascopic cholecystectomy, are there cha!
Question:
If an inexperienced surgeon performs laparascopic cholecystectomy, are there chances of injuring liver?
The patient was admitted for lap cholecystectomy with the assurance of getting back home in 3 days. The lap cholecystectomy was followed by open cholecystectomy, the reason said by the surgeon was that there was found bleeding in the liver. The patient was otherwise very healthy, had no past history of any surgery. I want to know if the bleeding in the liver was a result of medical misadventure during laparascopic cholecystectomy by the inefficient surgeon and so a subsequent open cholecystectomy (which was a major surgery) was performed? The surgeon never owned up his error. The patient actually expired some 15 days later.
Answers:
Its possible. The hospital keeps record of each operation that leads to death and examines them. If there was an error on the part of the surgeon, (and other things can go wrong that aren't his fault too don't forget) it will be in the records.
To see them you need a lawyer.