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INDUSTRY INDUCED
COMPLICATIONS
All the time the surgeon is responsible for complications.
This traditional view to the events must be changed. Here is an example:
This coated visorb manufactured by CP Medical, Portland , OR USA, purchased the
2 months by Shmaisani hospital was given to me and I performed 11 surgeries with this
material. Among patients was a
doctor and another one is the father of the doctor. This material caused disastrous events to all my eleven patients. The usual
clinical picture starts not immediately, but the third or fourth
postoperative day, when a subcutaneous massive serous fluid start to exudate in massive quantity, that you start to think that CSF leak took place. The
father of the doctor to whom the surgery was undertaken for OPLL was kept in hospital for three weeks with the thought that CSK leak is coming out and he was covered with vancomycin and mannitol. The patient was kept in a position to decrease the flow of the proposed CSF leak. During that time the wound was open, but the subcuticular material was in place. Accidentally , I removed this material and within three days all the reactions subsided and the patient was discharged. You can see the operative video record. You can also see the video record of
patient with LCS, how required debridement and suturing by nylon, after what the wound healed normal. Even the doctor with 2 cm incision for PLD still complaining of dehiscence and mostly she will require debridement under G.A for this 2 cm length incision. The company has no address to contact with and the dealers with such materials are a loose number to take the responsibility for such events. In case if some authorized personality follow this event , this material must be immediately withdrawn from the market. Thanks God that the series of patients were understandable and cooperative. But thousands of JDs were spent to correct these sequelae.
Later the FDA was involved with this problem and complete report
was given and they promised to resolve the problem.
The material issued in
08-April-2005
Case presentation:
A young 25 years old patient was operated 2 months ago, after
what he got persistent CSF leak. The patient was seen 05-11-2004
with mild meningism, lethargic, without fever and no
considerable neurologic deficit. The patient performed MRI with
contrast 05-11-2004. It showed a huge defect at the right
cribriform plate with air filling the entire ventricular
system with massive dilatation of the right lateral ventricle,
which was reaching the base of anterior fossa.
The patient was operated 06-11-2004: Through subfrontal approach
right side, repair of the dural defect and sealing of the base
by muscle and bone graft was performed. Video available. It is
very rare to see such complication, that reaching the
ventricular system, making wide communication between the
ventricular system and the sinuses.
There is a material of five patients with unknown to
me complications 4 of them fatal and one survived after laparatomy.
It was impossible to know what is going on, until the last case gave
the clue for the reason of these complications. The common
dominator between all these case, that all of them during the last 2
months, that they received dexametasone 16 mg three times a
day for minimum 2 days. After analyzing the cause, it became clear,
that Decadron was replaced by dexametasone of Egyptian brand (
EIPICO); which was used the last 2 months in the hospital, where my
activities are going on.
Here the list of patients in retrospective
retrograde chronological order:
During the 26 year
experience, I have the ability to predict the possible complications
in certain pathologies, but with introduction of various medications
from new companies with unknown standards, the possibilities of
complications is becoming wide and the prediction for complication
is loosing the clear picture. Thanks to God that I work in one
place, and I have the ability to retrospectively catch the problem,
but may be there are thousands of patient paying their life for
corrupted medical companies.
This part issued
14-August-2006
Contrast agents used in MRI investigations.
A
patient performed more
than 10 times over the years MRI investigations
using contrast media without complications. The
center was using Magnovist. At this time he was
given MultiHans and this could cost to him his
life due to rapid allergic anaphylactic shock
which was treated immediately.
2. Surgical products causing complications
during surgery:
1: BloodSTOP ix:
This product was offered for me to use it in critically vascular tumors to
decrease bleeding, but in the contrary, it caused many problems and in the
end result it was the source for further bleeding. For more details please
refer to the presentation case.
25-December-2009.
So as to have digital data registering the complications in
evolution and escalation, we introduced the best in the world
ISIS Highline Inomed IOM. It started
30-August-2007 and became in common use for all surgeries since that time.
