A patient who passed gas during an operation was badly burned when
the fart ignited a laser being used in the surgery, a hospital report
states.
The unnamed woman, in her 30s, was undergoing surgery at Tokyo
Medical University Hospital which involved a laser being applied to her
cervix.
As the surgery was being carried out in the Shinjuku Ward, she broke wind — sparking the fire, Japanese newspaper the Asahi Shimbun reports.
She was left screaming in agony after the fire burned most of her
body, waist and legs, according to a report by external experts into the
incident, which was released on Oct. 28.
The committee stated in the report that no flammable materials were
in the operating room during the surgery and that equipment was
functioning normally.
“When the patient’s intestinal gas leaked into the space of the
operation (room), it ignited with the irradiation of the laser, and the
burning spread, eventually reaching the surgical drape and causing the
fire,” the report stated.
The accident happened on April 15 this year but was only published in
a recent hospital report. Tokyo Medical University Hospital is an acute
care facility that claims to be the only facility in Japan to carry out
surgery using robots.
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