Also all rectal foreign bodies go to pathology too and if patients want there expensive "plaything" back they have to getit back from pathology. One of our general surgeons saved a recovered fist size rock...had it autoclaved and used it as a paperweight on his desk😷😂
well, it's their body. You can't exactly refuse, can you? If something were to be taken out of my body I'd ask for it(because, besides being a nurse, I'm a taxidermist and would like to make something beautiful out of it). In the hospital we usually give kidney and gall stones to the patients after surgery without them having to ask. Standard protocol. But no one ever asked for an organ or similar.
Yes often!!!! Any tissue removed must first go pathology in my hospital and then be requisitioned by the patient. Some Native American and religions require body parts to be buried. I have had a request for an amputated leg.....the funeral people handled the burial. Even if patients don't think to ask i offer to return ortho hardware to the patient. It is sent to CPD to be autoclaved then given back to the patient. I have also had a patient request the silicone scleral buckle implant back.☺😷😷
I recently had a pt that had a BKA after a traumatic degloving and he asked for his leg. Said he wanted to be buried with it, but in the mean time he wanted to mount it on the wall at his work so everyone could see the consequences of a machinery accident.
In Germany everything you take out of a patient’s body (excluding tumours that obvs have to go to patho) eg. PMs, gallstones have to be give to the patient anyway since it’s their body and it legally belongs to them.
