A lethal complication in a patient who who had undergone microscopic transoral transsphenoidal surgery for a pituitary tumour. That's already more information than most readers want to know, so I'll just provide the link to the Science Direct article with information from a 2021 publication in Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery.
That's my thinking process - ha-ha-ha!
ReplyDeleteJeez. I just passed the 20th anniversary of doctors repairing a ruptured aneurysm in my brain via a small hole in my femoral artery near my groin. A few years prior another physician managed a difficult (at the time) diagnosis of Lyme Disease. In the intervening time, I feel like I've had an awful lot of bad healthcare, and I worry that this kind of problem, while perhaps not an error caused by failure to adhere to procedure, is also evidence of the increasing pressure toward efficiency and output for things that need to be given their space and time. That's not how we're going to fix healthcare, and I say this as someone who now works in the field.
ReplyDeleteI'm off to go look for some actual statistics if the US government offices tasked with keeping them haven't been closed yet...
Benjamin, your sentiment is shared by a frighteningly large number of medical personnel.
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