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Surgical teams accidentally leave clamps, sponges and other tools inside about 1,500 patients nationwide each year. The mistakes largely result not from surgeon tiredness, but from the stress arising from emergencies or plications(并發(fā)癥) discovered on the operating table, the researchers reported. The study found that emergency operations are nine times more likely to lead to such mistakes, and operating room plications requiring a change in procedure are four times more likely. It also happens more often to fat patients, simply because there is more room inside them to lose equipment, according to the study. Twothirds of the mistakes happened even though the equipment was counted before and after the procedure, in keeping with the standard practice. Most lost objects were sponges, but also included were metal clamps and electrodes(電極). In two cases, 11inch retractors(牽引器) metal strips were fotten inside another operation, four sponges were left inside there is significant bleeding and a sponge is placed in a patient, it can sometimes look indistinguishable from the tissue around it. The lost objects usually lay around the abdomen(腹腔) or hips but sometimes in the often caused tears or patients needed additional surgery to remove the other cases, patients even sensed nothing about the object, and it turned up in later surgery for other problems. To prevent such mistakes from happening, Loyola University Medical Centre is being one of the first hospitals in the country to use sponges outfitted with bar new system was brought to Loyola through the efforts of the hospital39。s operating room nurses. Another effective way is to Xray patients after surgery to reduce the likelihood of objects being left inside patients. 1. In which of the following situations are objects most likely to be left inside a patient? A. The nurses are counting the equipment and the patient is being Xrayed. B. The surgeons are doing the last operation of the day, and everyone is exhausted. C. A plex operation is going on according to the plan made by many