Just spitballing. Consent issue maybe? Like it only covered tibia, and the staff didn’t notice until the patient was under / couldn’t get a hold of family to have it added?
That’s not really how consent works, at least not in the US. You typically give consent for the operation, not for every individual procedure that’s done in the operation. A lot of the times you don’t really know what’s going to be needed to be done until you have the patient opened up, so the provider has a lot of leeway to operate as they see fit.
How quickly can it absorb?
Depends on the individual and what bone we are talking about. Though that’s quite a lot of bone to dissipate, so my guess would be that it’s a fairly old injury.
Just spitballing. Consent issue maybe? Like it only covered tibia, and the staff didn’t notice until the patient was under / couldn’t get a hold of family to have it added?
How quickly can it absorb?
That’s not really how consent works, at least not in the US. You typically give consent for the operation, not for every individual procedure that’s done in the operation. A lot of the times you don’t really know what’s going to be needed to be done until you have the patient opened up, so the provider has a lot of leeway to operate as they see fit.
Depends on the individual and what bone we are talking about. Though that’s quite a lot of bone to dissipate, so my guess would be that it’s a fairly old injury.