Prevention of medical accidents caused by defective surgical instruments.

Hiroshi Yasuhara; Kazuhiko Fukatsu; Takami Komatsu; Toshihiko Obayashi; Yuhei Saito; Yushi Uetera

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Prevention of medical accidents caused by defective surgical instruments.

April 11, 2012

Yasuhara H, Fukatsu K, Komatsu T, et al. Surgery. 2012;151(2):153-61.

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Near misses or adverse events due to defective surgical equipment were rare, occurring in only 1 per 10,000 procedures in this Japanese study.

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