The woman complained to her doctor of severe pain after her baby was delivered via caesarean section, according to an official report released Monday in New Zealand.
The woman complained of severe chronic pain for months after the birth of her child, and doctors eventually discovered that an Alexis wound retractor — a round, soft tubular device used to draw back the edges of a wound during surgery — had been accidentally left inside her during the operation.
“I acknowledge the stress that these events caused to the woman and her family. The woman experienced episodes of pain over a significant period of time following her surgery until the AWR was removed in 2021,” McDowell said in the report. It was this second, larger device that was left inside the patient and wasn’t discovered until a CT scan more than a year later.
Mike Shepard, Te Whatu Ora’s group director of operations for Auckland, said in a statement to the media: “I would like to say how sorry we are for what happened to the patient, and acknowledge the impact that this will have had on her and her whānau [family]. For ethical and privacy reasons we can’t comment on the details of individual patient care.
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