What are the plausible reasons for surgical errors that happen in an operating room? Is it the nervous patient or the anxious surgeon? Is it an inexperienced OR staff or just a human error? Unfortunately, it is the doctor who is as always at the gun point. It is the surgeon who has to take the burden of all clinical, social, psychological, legal consequences of a surgical mistake in most of the cases.
This article will outline few commonest surgical errors that happen in an ophthalmological procedure. The incidence of errors in ophthalmic surgery is very rare but have strong consecutive implications. Errors involving the wrong surgical site, patient, lens, or procedure is 69 per 1 million eye operations, according to a study. In the same study, researchers' reviewed 106 cases of surgical confusion. Of those, 64 were reported to a medical error tracking system from among 900,000 eye…
