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Florida surgeon ‘devastated’ over death of patient after removing liver instead of spleen
(www.theguardian.com)
Thomas Shaknovsky botched the surgery of William Bryan, 70, who died on the operating table
According to Shaknovksy’s deposition, after removing Bryan’s liver, the surgeon instructed a nurse to label the organ as a “spleen” – and he also identified it as a spleen in Bryan’s postoperative notes. Shaknovsky later said he had been “mentally compromised” at the time of Bryan’s death, explaining that he was “devastated, demoralized, crying over his passing, felt that I failed him”.
Masses of Human: Spleen 30-230 g Liver avg. 1.5 kg male, and 1.2 kg female
smh
Just being a devil's advocate here. If they are removing the spleen, it's probably because there is something wrong with the spleen.
And I've seen splenomegaly cases where the spleen is bigger than the liver. Like almost twice as big.
Seriously.
Also, left and right. Like they shift a bit but not that much. My spleen got lost too (radiology, not surgery, longer story involving indium than I want to tell in text) but if you think a liver is an inflamed spleen you better have identified that the inflamed spleen is the size of a liver first.
Also don't they have a different number of tubes coming offa them? This is not my area of anatomy specialty.
Different in so many ways, it's criminal.