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SAMJ: South African Medical Journal

versão On-line ISSN 2078-5135
versão impressa ISSN 0256-9574

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MCQUOID-MASON, D J. Postoperative care: From a legal point of view, whose responsibility is it?. SAMJ, S. Afr. med. j. [online]. 2016, vol.106, n.9, pp.874-876. ISSN 2078-5135.  http://dx.doi.org/10.7196/samj.2016.v106i9.11082.

An ear, nose and throat surgeon recently asked if anyone else would be responsible postoperatively for removing a patient's throat pack that had been negligently left in place by the anaesthetist. Generally, members of the operating or treatment team such as anaesthetists, surgeons and circulating nurses are not legally liable for one another's negligent acts or omissions in theatre or postoperatively. However, in situations where one or both of the other members of the team could have directly intervened to prevent harm to a patient and failed to do so, such team members could have legal liability imposed on them as joint wrongdoers, e.g. where a throat pack is negligently left in a patient by an anaesthetist.

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