TY - JOUR AB - A cautionary tale Endosurgery, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA) that had protruded through a sharps bin (a). Here, the surgeon did not retract A member of the theatre team had a superficial injury to her leg from the spike of a circular stapler (CDH series, Ethicon the spike before disposal in an overfilled bin. All team members must take care when disposing of circular staplers, beginning with the surgeon retracting the spike immediately after checking the tissue ‘doughnuts’ (b). Open in new tabDownload slide James OP, Williams GL: Department of Colorectal Surgery, Royal Gwent Hospital, Cardiff Road, Newport NP20 2UB, UK (e-mail: osianpjames@gmail.com) Published online in Wiley Online Library (www.bjs.co.uk). DOI:10.1002/bjs.11173 Snapshots in Surgery: to view submission guidelines, submit your snapshot and view the archive, please visitwww.bjs.co.uk © 2019 BJS Society Ltd Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd This article is published and distributed under the terms of the Oxford University Press, Standard Journals Publication Model (https://academic.oup.com/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model) © 2019 BJS Society Ltd Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd TI - Snapshot quiz JO - British Journal of Surgery DO - 10.1002/bjs.11173 DA - 2019-07-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/snapshot-quiz-lDq0VBhYuE SP - 1018 EP - 1018 VL - 106 IS - 8 DP - DeepDyve ER -