... suction and started the operation. Mr Jones had an obstructed bowel, which was removed. However the operation did not go well because of an excessive amount of bleeding, due to which the surgeon put small swabs inside the wound, as he felt the larger swabs with tapes would obstruct his view. Mr Jones was fast deteriorating, so the surgeons were very busy in controlling the bleeding, which at last they achieved; so they put the drain there and started to close the wound. When they were about to have a last look into the abdomen to be satisfied that it is dry, I had already started to count the instruments and swabs with my circulating nurse. While counting the swabs, I opened every AP's swab (30 x 30) showing the tape to the nurse and then continuing with the count. While doing so, we noticed that one of AP's swab-tape ...

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