2023-11-13 13:41:42
According to the Nuclear Safety Agency, a doctor made a mistake by writing “right breast” instead of “left breast” on “the report of the initial medical consultation”. The error was only detected after 25 sessions out of 28 planned.
A “laterality error”. A patient was the victim of a medical error at the Bretonneau CHRU in Tours, as revealed on Friday November 10 by France 3 Centre-Val-de-Loire. In a press release, the Nuclear Safety Agency (ASN) explains that a woman being treated for breast cancer received a series of rays on the wrong breast last spring.
“A laterality error (right-left inversion) occurred during treatment preparation,” indicates the ASN.
Severity event 2 of 7
The error was only detected after 25 sessions out of 28 planned. The patient was treated with external breast radiotherapy, which involves using ionizing radiation generated by a particle accelerator to destroy any residual cancer cells after surgery.
According to ASN, a doctor made a mistake by writing “right breast” instead of “left breast” on “the report of the initial medical consultation”, which then led to a medical error by the service. of oncology and radiotherapy of the establishment.
“Taking into account the overdose of the wrongly treated region and the potential risk of side effects”, the ASN classified this event as 2 on a scale going from 0 to 7 going in increasing order of seriousness for the patient.
Already a precedent in the same hospital
“This is not the first time that such an incident has occurred at Bretonneau hospital,” ASN explains to France 3, mentioning an error concerning the ear of a patient treated in this establishment.
The latter also reacted by evoking multiple causes which led to these “serious” errors. “The analysis of the root causes of this event by the center is underway,” writes ASN.
“The patient was informed of the error and its potential consequences. A new treatment plan was proposed to treat the breast that should have been treated,” the agency continues. According to information from France Bleu, the patient chose to continue to receive treatment in the same hospital.
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