The Joint Commission’s Sentinel Event Review For 2024
September 15, 2025
What Is A Sentinel Event? The Joint Commission defines a sentinel event as a patient safety event (not primarily related to the natural course of the patient’s illness or underlying condition) that reaches a patient and results in: Death Permanent harm (regardless of severity of harm) Sev[...]
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Surgical Forceps Left In Patient For 18 Years
January 14, 2017
When a 54-year-old Vietnamese man had a stomach ache and sought medical care, little did he suspect that an x-ray would find that the cause of his problems was surgical forceps that were apparently left in his abdomen near his colon during emergency surgery that he had eighteen years earlier followi[...]
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