After 5 years, the broken needle catheter was removed.'"I lived with a time bomb"
Aug 09, 2024
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The catheter was accidentally broken by a nurse at a hospital in Shaanxi Province in December 2018, when the boy was five months old.
At that time, the 18mm long and 0.8mm diameter plastic catheter injected into the boy's head vein was incised about 10cm, but it was not visible.
Echocardiography and lung CT were taken but not found.
It was not easy to find it while walking around the body with broken blood.
Broken catheters have become hidden 'time bombs' that can puncture blood vessels or form blood clots and travel to the heart and lungs.
As a result, the family has had to live in anxiety for the past five years.
According to Chinese media such as China Dotcom and Sina News, the boy's family visited large hospitals across China and tried in vain to find catheters.
Doctors say the shorter, smaller and less noticeable the more difficult it is to remove""Metals can be easily found through medical images, but plastic catheters are difficult to find with images.", he explained.
Meanwhile, a B-ultrasound was recently performed at Beijing University Children's Hospital, and the location of the catheter was confirmed deep in the boy's left jaw.
However, the location was more complex than other parts of the neck, so it was dangerous to perform surgery.
The boy's parents were "like coming out of a dark pit and falling straight into another unknown pit"He expressed his feelings at the time.
However, the parents had the courage to ask the medical staff for removal surgery. The medical team finally succeeded in removing the catheter after about four hours of surgery.
The boy has now been discharged from the hospital and is recovering.
The parents are preparing a lawsuit against the hospital where the nurse's mistake occurred six years ago.
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