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A blade was left inside a patient during bypass surgery

The blade was not found until three months later when Victor Hutchison was X-rayed at another hospital after being admitted with gall bladder pain . . .

. . . Surgical staff realised one of the scalpel blades was missing and spent an hour searching for it following the operation.

Mr Hutchison was given an X-ray but the blade had become lodged in his abdominal cavity, near his spine, not the chest cavity where staff were looking.”