How’s it going YouTube?
I’m Landon and welcome back to another most amazing video.
Have you guys ever needed surgery?
I actually had a back surgery just over a year ago for a herniated disc and as it turns
out, during the first surgery they actually made a mistake and I had to go under the knife
for a second time a few days after that.
There are a lot of things that can happen during a surgery even if it is routine surgery
or a complicated one.
There are lots of documented cases of terrible things happening during a surgery or after
and that’s what we are going to be talking about today.
So let’s get right into the top 10 scariest surgery stories.
Starting us off in at number 10 is the Nose job that went horribly wrong.
A man who recently got divorced from his wife, wanted to get a nose job to change his appearance.
After the first operation, he had problems breathing properly so he returned to the surgeon
for some slight adjustments.
As it turns out, his surgeon did a few more hack jobs and 22 procedures later, his nose
had pretty much been severed off.
He was left with a collapsed nostril that was constructed out of cartilage from his
ear and ribcage.
To make matters worse, his nose only has one hole and it needs to be propped open with
a plastic straw so that it doesn’t cave in and suffocate him.
A huge mistake comes in at number 9.
A patient was on the operating table for a reverse colostomy in which surgeons were supposed
to reattach his healed colon onto his anus.
However, one of the attending surgeons failed to reconnect the colon to his anus.
Instead, they stapled his colon to his bladder.
For those of you who don’t know, stool moves through your colon and is supposed to leave
through the anus.
But for this poor soul, he was pooping through his penis.
Whoa, this sounds like an absolute nightmare and he wasn’t even able to sue for malpractice.
Up next in at number 8 we have a Surgeon who removed the wrong leg.
This huge mistake actually occurs more than you might think.
A surgeon in Florida accidentally removed the wrong leg during an amputation procedure
back in 1995.
As it turns out, the wrong leg was prepper for surgery and the surgeon’s team realized
in the middle of the procedure that they were operating on the wrong leg.
But it was already too late.
Man’s penis is chopped off for no reason, ouch, and this comes in at number 7.
Whoa, this is what nightmares are made of.
Hurshll Ralls was 67 years old when he went under the knife in order to remove a cancerous
tumor from his bladder.
The good news is, the surgery worked – he is cancer free but the bad news is, he lost
his penis.
During the operation, the surgeon decided to remove his penis in order prevent the cancer
from spreading but he didn’t even inform the patient or his wife that this would even
be a possibility.
And the surgeon didn’t even check if the cancer had even spread to his reproductive
organs.
Number 6 brings us to Surgical items were left inside of a man’s body.
How does this sort of thing ever happen?
There are so many people in the operating room, taking inventory of each medical tool
used.
This is a huge mistake and I smell an even bigger law suit.
Dirk Schroeder underwent surgery to remove a tumor but he ended up getting more than
he bargained for.
During his recovery, he was experiencing excruciating pain and a nurse noticed a gauze pad leaking
out of his wound.
It was later discovered that the surgeons had left 16 surgical items in his body!
There was a surgical mask, needle and a roll of bandages.
Is this real-life right now?
Another case of surgeons leaving items in the patient’s body comes in at number 5.
A patient underwent a surgery in order to remove a tumor that was in his abdomen.
The tumor was successfully removed but the 13-inch metal retractor was left in its place.
The doctors admitted to leaving the 13-inch object in his abdomen by mistake and fortunately,
they were able to remove it but it took 2 months for them to discover that they made
this mistake.
Another Huge mix up comes in at number 4.
Darrie Eason was a 35-year-old mother who was told that she had breast cancer so she
should have both of her breasts removed.
She went for a second opinion but that doctor used the results from the first doctor and
recommended the surgery as well.
As it turns out, a technician actually tried to cut corners while labelling tissue specimens
and he made a huge mistake.
Darrie never had breast cancer.
She was actually quite healthy and she had both of her breasts removed for no reason.
She went through so much mental and physical pain for nothing.
Number 3 brings us to a Wrong-sided brain surgery.
I thought it was mandatory for surgeons to go to medical school, so what happened here?
For the third time, doctors at a Rhode Island hospital have operated on the wrong side of
a patient’s head.
How can this type of mistake happen three times?
One patient required an operation to stop bleeding between her brain and skull and when
they started the operation, they begun on the wrong side.
They closed up her skull and made an incision on the other side.
I still can’t believe that something like this happens.
Surgery without anesthesia creeps into number 2.
This has to be the worst-case scenario, ever.
Sherman Sizemore literally went through hell when he suffered from a rare phenomenon called
anesthesia awareness in which he didn’t receive enough anesthetic so he was able to
feel every incision during his surgery.
But he was unable to move or communicate what was happening to the doctors.
I can’t even begin to understand what he must’ve been feeling.
Sounds like modern day torture.
Finally in at number 1 we have a Girl who died after receiving wrong heart and lungs.
Back in 2003, a 17-year-old girl died after surgeons transplanted the wrong heart and
lungs.
The surgeons immediately went in for a second operation in order to fix their mistake but
she suffered from brain damage and complications that ultimately killed her.
This teenage girl had type O blood and she had received organs from a Type A donor.
The hospital blamed human error for the death of this young girl and they settled with the
family for an undisclosed amount.
But there is no amount of money that will ever help this family get over the death of
their little girl.
Well there you guys have it…