retained object

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an object in a passive construction

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Two further incidents - a retained object following surgery in Bolton, and an incident which saw a patient connected to an air flowmeter instead of oxygen at MFT - were reported from February 1 to March 30.

Potentially fatal failures at hospitals

Our case raises many questions regarding incidents of retained surgical material, including policies and procedures to limit its occurrence, the inflammatory role a retained object may have on a patient's systemic diseases, the effects of immunosuppressive treatments on the presentation of retained surgical material, and the ethical and legal considerations regarding disclosing such an event to the patient.

Gossypiboma Resection after Eight Years in a Patient with Rheumatoid Arthritis and Diabetes

Using as an example, foreign object retained after surgery, a diagnosis code flagging the retained object should be reported and subsequently deleted from the funding algorithm, as is the case under the current policy.

(5) Where a retained object is removed during a subsequent admission for another reason, the foreign body removal procedure code should also be deleted from the funding algorithm.

Enhancing Medicare's hospital-acquired conditions policy to encompass readmissions

Five kinds of adverse events account for 60 percent of the reports: retained objects (19 percent), which refers to objects, such as sponges, unintentionally left in a patient after surgery; wrong site procedures (10 percent), which covers incisions or anesthesia in the wrong location; medication errors (10 percent); falls (9.5 percent); and infections (9 percent).

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Can one postulate that Gardiner's "retained object" in Egyptian is similar in function to the Greek accusative of relation?

If one wishes to postulate a "retained object" as a distinct grammatical phenomenon for Egyptian, one would expect it to exist independently from the phenomenon of agent-less indirect verb forms, following verb forms other than passive participles, as in Greek.

Agent-less indirect adjectival verb forms in Egyptian and Arabic: the case of jrrw n.f. and maf ul lahu, "for whom one acts."

In Western literature there are case reports of retained catheters and guide wires, making them the most commonly reported non-surgically retained objects. (6-8)

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