A surgeon used a Swiss army knife to open up the chest of a patient in cardiac arrest because he claimed he could not find a sterile scalpel.
The surgeon had said he couldn’t find a sterile scalpel The patient, treated at Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton in December 2023, survived, but the BBC has reported that internal documents show how colleagues felt the surgeon’s behaviour was ‘questionable’.
’ Prof Graeme Poston, an expert witness on clinical negligence and a former consultant surgeon, told the BBC: ‘It surprises me and appals me. Firstly, a penknife is not sterile. Secondly it is not an operating instrument. And thirdly all the kit there.’ It comes as Sussex Police are investigating allegations of medical negligence at the trust between 2015 to 2021, relating to neurosurgery and general surgery at the Brighton hospital.
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