A state investigation determined the surgery team failed to complete the required "time-out" before the surgery to identify the correct incision site, failed to mark the child's skull and did not document the error in the patient's medical record.
ORANGE, Calif. -- Surgeons with Children's Hospital of Orange County inserted a tube into the wrong ear of a child, the second wrong-site operation by hospital doctors in 18 months.
The June 5 outpatient surgery at St. Joseph Hospital, where Children's Hospital surgeries are performed, was done to insert a tube into a child's right ear.A doctor mistakenly inserted tubes into both ears rather than just one. When the mistake was discovered, the left tube was removed and the family was notified, according to the hospital.
The hospital said in its statement Tuesday that it regretted the incident. The name and age of the child, and the names of the surgeons, weren't disclosed by hospital spokeswoman Denise Almazan.
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