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The Health and Assistance Inspection. Stock Photography.
A nail operation that ended with the amputation of a leg a few months later has the Swedish Health and Care Inspectorate (Ivo) criticizing a medical supervisor.
The case concerns an elderly man who had a toenail operated on at a Gothenburg health center, reports SVT Väst.
An infection after the operation caused the tissue to die, despite several courses of antibiotics, which in turn led to the amputation of the lower leg.
The patient was examined by a newly trained doctor, but it is the doctor’s supervisor, who also participated in the operation, whom Ivo criticizes.
According to Ivo, the doctor should have chosen a treatment without surgery due to the reduced blood circulation. One sign of this was a year of health difficult to cure.
The supervisor believes that it was possible to feel a pulse in the foot in connection with the operation and therefore there was no indication that the circulation was so impaired that there was a lack of oxygen in the tissue.
The complainant organization claims that the incident caused physical and mental suffering to the patient.
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