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Retained Surgical Items: Events and Guidelines Revisited

Patients may suffer for years with pain or other disabilities as a result of an undiag-nosed RSI. For example, a sponge was found in a California woman four years after abdominal surgery. She complained of nausea, dehydration, and bleeding before the sponge was discovered during surgery for a suspected ovarian cyst.3

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