An operating-room fire at NYU Langone Medical Center left a young patient with facial burns that required more than two weeks of hospital treatment, newly released documents show.
The patient underwent surgery on Dec. 18, 2014, according to a federal-investigation report. A surgeon’s electric cauterizing device sparked a “flash fire” propelled by oxygen from the patient’s oxygen mask — which the anesthesiologist failed to shut off, the report said.
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