Re:Surgeon admits to branding initials on patients' livers
by hycaria on Monday December 18, 2017 @04:20AM
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>It could well lead to Cirrhosis of the liver. Not to mention Adhesion that could become painful.
Do you have any medical background ? Did you ever use a coagulator ? Or ever saw a liver with your own eyes and the eventual scars those get because of routinely occurring small infarctii or such ? I doubt so, as this is utter bullshit.
> I'm not too sure how likely either issue is
Not likely at all in this universe
Re:Surgeon admits to branding initials on patients' livers
by King-Aaron on Monday December 18, 2017 @07:51PM
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> Do you have any medical background ?
Briefly, working as a theatre technician in coronary intervention. We used diathermy etc in the lab.
Re:Surgeon admits to branding initials on patients' livers
by DanBC on Monday December 18, 2017 @06:50AM
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It's not intended to be a permanent scar. These marks are routinely used to mark out areas of the liver to be worked on, and they should normally heal.
In this case he did it to a patient and the marks didn't heal. (By definition he works on patients who's livers are less likely to heal), but it didn't cause any further harm.
It could well lead to Cirrhosis of the liver. Not to mention Adhesion that could become painful. I'm not too sure how likely either issue is, however I wouldn't like to assume that scarring your liver is going to be completely free of complications... Though by the time you're having an intraoperative procedure done on your liver, you're already not free from complications.