It is not said to the man that he would have implant the bone of the deceased

A man who had received a bone graft from a deceased person, and who had not been warned, needed psychiatric help to help him forget about it. 39; test.

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The 2016 case is detailed in a report by the Ontario Health and Safety Commissioner. Disability

The man had persistent neck pain after an accident in 2013 and was recommended for spinal surgery. pressure on his neck by an orthopedic surgeon in Auckland

The 61-year-old patient stated that he had been told at two separate appointments that the bones of his hip would be placed between the vertebrae in his neck. has been recorded in medical records for the purpose of the orthopedic surgeon to use an allograft – a procedure where the human material is transplanted from one person to the other.

The orthopedic surgeon, who was not named in the report, said what he told the patient. The surgeon did not record the conversations.

The consenting surgeon failed to inform the man that the material given was intended to be used during his surgery and he should have clarified the details of the procedure with the orthopedic surgeon, the report [19659005] After the operation, the patient asked three times why he did not hurt the hips and the consenting surgeon "spoke around the subject".

A few months later, the patient asked the orthopedic surgeon of the Clinical Outpatient why he had no pain in his hip and was told that he had been given material The patient needed to see a psychologist after the operation to help him forget that he had someone else. bone in his neck. "

The health observer found that the orthopedic surgeon did not provide the man with sufficient information about the proposed treatment and was given the order of his."

Read the full report here

The case resulted in changes to the policy of the Auckland District Health Board.

At the time of the patient's surgery, DHB did not require consent for the use of any given human material if it did not present a risk.The Disability Commissioner ordered the DHB to change its informed consent policy, and the DHB now requires explicit consent for the use of material taken from the body of another person.