Retained Foreign Body From a Sheared Off Lumbar Drain

A resident is asked to remove a drain that was placed in the lumbar space during an operation. Having never seen this sort of drain before not having removed one, the resident proceeded to remove the catheter. Several days later, the patient complained of persistent drainage. An 11-cm segment of retained catheter was removed. This JAMA Performance Improvement article discusses how to avoid this sort of problem as well as how to ensure that resident physicians have sufficient skills to perform procedures on their own. We talk with Drs Cynthia Barnhard, John DeLancey, authors of Retained Lumbar Catheter Tip, and Dr Aaron Reynolds and Dr David Baker. Related article: Retained Lumbar Catheter Tip

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Retained Foreign Body From a Sheared Off Lumbar Drain is an episode from JAMA Performance Improvement: Do No Harm—Taking complications head on to improve the quality of medical care by American Medical Association.

This episode is 19:33 long.

This episode was published on Mar 28, 2017.

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