Patient was here for a cystoscopy, right retrograde pyelogram, right ureteral stent exchange.The surgeon chose the stent he wanted; he opened the box, handed stent to an un-scrubbed certified surgical technologist (cst), and said open this.So it was opened on the field and placed in the right ureter.The circulating rn needed product info and when provided this, discovered the stent had expired.Resident notified; he called attending and the decision was made to exchange the stent.The issue is that the box of the stent had an expiration date on it of 5/2018; the package read expired in 4/2018; and the package inside of the larger package listed an expiration date of 6/2021.
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