11-01-2023, 06:48 AM
“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind"
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Anaesthetist who left patient during operation to take phone calls suspended 2½ years
“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind"
11-01-2023, 06:49 AM
No monkey business.
“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind"
11-01-2023, 07:07 AM
Wah. Anaesthetists are very important during operations based on what I learnt from a TV show on an anaesthetist. He or she has to react very quickly based on the signs from the patient being operated. This guy kept leaving the room?
11-01-2023, 07:10 AM
(11-01-2023, 07:07 AM)Levin Wrote: Wah. Anaesthetists are very important during operations based on what I learnt from a TV show on an anaesthetist. He or she has to react very quickly based on the signs from the patient being operated. This guy kept leaving the room?
This guy should not have left the operating theater........will the patient is undergoing the surgery................so irresponsible......
11-01-2023, 09:02 AM
Rightly so....
Their service is not cheap. Could cost anything from $200 to very a thousand.
Their service is not cheap. Could cost anything from $200 to very a thousand.
CHAOS & Cityhantam are 2 sick CCP mother-fcuker bastards, who support Islamic radical Simplemen, aka Imran, who has been belittling Chinese, juz because their mothers like farking Hamas dogs
11-01-2023, 09:05 AM
11-01-2023, 09:13 AM
Booking the operating table is not cheap. For private, should be 4 digits. Recognized Bangla worker? Who is his customer?
11-01-2023, 09:45 AM
WTF! 2017, now than ban
Should have pb him immediately and send him back to Bangladesh
Should have pb him immediately and send him back to Bangladesh
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11-01-2023, 10:23 AM
(11-01-2023, 09:02 AM)YummyKing Wrote: Rightly so....
Their service is not cheap. Could cost anything from $200 to very a thousand.
rule of thumb is their fee is 1/4 of the surgreon's fee
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11-01-2023, 10:23 AM
An anaesthetist who walked out of the operating theatre several times to take calls from other patients while another in his care was undergoing surgery has been suspended for 2½ years, the Singapore Medical Council said on Tuesday.
During the operation in 2016, the patient suffered a complication when a blood clot blocked oxygen from his lungs, an event known as a pulmonary embolism. He was successfully resuscitated by a team of doctors, but died the following day.
The Singapore Medical Council’s disciplinary tribunal said the patient’s chances of surviving the embolism was very low. But that chance may have been further lowered by Dr Islam Md Towfique’s delay in recognising the changes in the patient’s vital signs and consequent delay in taking action.
Dr Islam told the tribunal it was common practice for anaesthetists to leave the operating theatre for short periods of time.
The patient, 64, had surgery performed at Gleneagles Hospital on a fracture caused by his bone marrow cancer on Sept 1, 2016. Given his age, obesity, prior heart problems and cancer, he was “considered a high anaesthetic risk patient”, said the tribunal.
During the operation, his oxygen reading fell below 90 per cent, “into the 80s and 70s”. Normal range for blood oxygen level is between 96 per cent and 99 per cent. Despite that, the oxygen given to the patient was not increased.
Hospital parent firm Parkway Pantai Ltd said in a letter to Dr Islam that “increasing the oxygen delivery is one of the first few actions that an anaesthetist should initiate when a patient’s SpO2 falls, and yet for almost 50 minutes, with the SpO2 either un-recordable or in an unacceptable range, this remedial action was not taken”.
In his defence, Dr Islam, a veteran doctor, said: “I was with the patient and did apply my expertise to keep the Haemodynamics but I forgot to increase the oxygen to 100 per cent.”
Parkway suspended him for six months in 2017, and reported the incident to the SMC.
The expert for the SMC, which was the prosecuting body, said things can go wrong very quickly, “so we need to be there... there is not at any point... that it’s safe for an anaesthetist to leave the patient”.
He added that “all you need is less than a minute for things to go wrong”.
The tribunal agreed with the prosecution that the potential harm to the patient from Dr Islam’s multiple departures from the operating theatre “would be serious injury or even death”.
The hospital CCTV in the corridor outside the operating theatre showed Dr Islam left the operating theatre “multiple times”. The longest period he was gone was nine minutes.
Aside from those times, Dr Islam also went several times to the adjoining induction room, but these were not recorded by the CCTV.
Dr Islam had argued that there was nothing wrong with his leaving the operating theatre for short periods as this “behaviour would not be that different from that of his other anaesthetic colleagues”.
The surgeon who had carried out the operation and who gave evidence on behalf of Dr Islam at the hearing said the anaesthetist has continued to leave the operating theatre to take phone calls.
During the operation in 2016, the patient suffered a complication when a blood clot blocked oxygen from his lungs, an event known as a pulmonary embolism. He was successfully resuscitated by a team of doctors, but died the following day.
The Singapore Medical Council’s disciplinary tribunal said the patient’s chances of surviving the embolism was very low. But that chance may have been further lowered by Dr Islam Md Towfique’s delay in recognising the changes in the patient’s vital signs and consequent delay in taking action.
Dr Islam told the tribunal it was common practice for anaesthetists to leave the operating theatre for short periods of time.
The patient, 64, had surgery performed at Gleneagles Hospital on a fracture caused by his bone marrow cancer on Sept 1, 2016. Given his age, obesity, prior heart problems and cancer, he was “considered a high anaesthetic risk patient”, said the tribunal.
During the operation, his oxygen reading fell below 90 per cent, “into the 80s and 70s”. Normal range for blood oxygen level is between 96 per cent and 99 per cent. Despite that, the oxygen given to the patient was not increased.
Hospital parent firm Parkway Pantai Ltd said in a letter to Dr Islam that “increasing the oxygen delivery is one of the first few actions that an anaesthetist should initiate when a patient’s SpO2 falls, and yet for almost 50 minutes, with the SpO2 either un-recordable or in an unacceptable range, this remedial action was not taken”.
In his defence, Dr Islam, a veteran doctor, said: “I was with the patient and did apply my expertise to keep the Haemodynamics but I forgot to increase the oxygen to 100 per cent.”
Parkway suspended him for six months in 2017, and reported the incident to the SMC.
The expert for the SMC, which was the prosecuting body, said things can go wrong very quickly, “so we need to be there... there is not at any point... that it’s safe for an anaesthetist to leave the patient”.
He added that “all you need is less than a minute for things to go wrong”.
The tribunal agreed with the prosecution that the potential harm to the patient from Dr Islam’s multiple departures from the operating theatre “would be serious injury or even death”.
The hospital CCTV in the corridor outside the operating theatre showed Dr Islam left the operating theatre “multiple times”. The longest period he was gone was nine minutes.
Aside from those times, Dr Islam also went several times to the adjoining induction room, but these were not recorded by the CCTV.
Dr Islam had argued that there was nothing wrong with his leaving the operating theatre for short periods as this “behaviour would not be that different from that of his other anaesthetic colleagues”.
The surgeon who had carried out the operation and who gave evidence on behalf of Dr Islam at the hearing said the anaesthetist has continued to leave the operating theatre to take phone calls.
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