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Lap Burn. AHRQ WebM&M icon
Ball K. AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. October 2004.
While repositioning the trocar, a surgeon places the laparoscope on a tray sitting on the patient. When she picks it back up, she notices that the drape has melted and the patient has a second-degree burn.
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