University of Washington surgeons have left five surgical instruments in patients during the past five years, including two13-inch-long retractors, the medical center said yesterday. The most ...

UW doctors called the rate of such errors “low” and reassured the public that their medical care ... instances of retained instruments, both of them cardiac retractors used in heart surgery.

She said Thompson also sells a high volume of retractors to other makers of medical devices, in particular Medtronic plc (NYSE: MDT), a Minneapolis-based maker of medical instruments that ...

“It should be noted that the retractor, a round, soft tubal instrument of transparent plastic ... after she underwent a C-section. Applied Medical Resources “There is substantial precedent ...

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Applied Medical/AP During the c-section ... “It should be noted that the retractor, a round, soft tubal instrument of transparent plastic fixed on two rings, is a large item, about the size ...

Hammill and Polishuk removed the instrument the next day ... by Judge Sheridan Reed during the trial about whether the retractor caused the infection, the jury was limited by state medical-malpractice ...

only for the Alexis wound retractor — a cylindrical mesh instrument which, as its name gorily but accurately describes, peels back the skin around a wound such as the one needed in a C-section ...

This instrument was subsequently removed and replaced with a larger Alexis retractor ... an unnamed nurse is quoted as saying in the medical report. "This may have been due to the fact that ...

The report said the retractors weren' included in a routine count of medical equipment in the hospital ... that the retention of a surgical instrument in a person’s body falls well below the ...