• Int Orthop · Jan 2002

    The rate of instrument breakage during orthopaedic procedures.

    • M V Price, S Molloy, M C Solan, A Sutton, and D M Ricketts.
    • Department of Orthopaedics and Trauma, Princess Royal Hospital, Lewes Road, Haywards Heath, UK, RH16 4EX.
    • Int Orthop. 2002 Jan 1;26(3):185-7.

    AbstractThe current study investigates instrument breakages during both emergency and elective orthopaedic surgery. Over a 2 year period a total of 7,775 procedures were performed. We found that 14 instruments were broken during 12 operative cases. Drill bits accounted for the largest proportion of breakages (11/14), and a specialist registrar was the lead surgeon in the majority (8/12) of cases. Only one case had a consultant as the lead surgeon. In seven cases the broken bit of the surgical instrument was left in the patient. Documentation of this peri-operative complication was deficient, and the patient was often not informed.

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