The parents of a young child have filed a lawsuit against Swedish Medical Center, alleging that an employee doctor left a guidewire inside their boy after a routine procedure involving inserting a catheter in his leg to give him fluids and medication.

Typically surgeons and hospitals in which surgeries occur have checklists to make sure no sponges, tools, or other substances are left inside a patient. Still, such events still occur, and can cause patient/victims disastrous consequences. Hopefully, it sounds like the boy in this story is ok now, in spite of what he’s gone through.

You can watch the news report and read the article here:

[Surgical wire left in Everett toddler prompts lawsuit][1]

[1]: http://www.king5.com/news/cities/seattle/Swedish-Hospital-lawsuit-guidewire-child-patient-223059651.html “Surgical wire left in Everett toddler prompts lawsuit”