Operating room leaders and staff may need to re-work surgical count policies in order to prevent variation in surgical count practices and the incidence of retained surgical items, according to ...

David Palmer thinks ClearCount Medical Solutions’ technology will push it over the top in the burgeoning surgical-sponge-detection market. ClearCount, which uses embedded radio-frequency ID chips to ...

After a Fresno, Calif.-based Community Regional Medical Center surgeon put a patient in serious jeopardy by leaving a surgical towel inside his body, the cancer center had to rethink its surgical ...

Researchers found significant variation in hospitals’ policies on surgical counts as well as practice among hospital personnel, according to research published in the AORN Journal.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The routine count of sponges and instruments used and retrieved during surgery comes up with a discrepancy in 1 in 8 operations, investigators report. However, almost ...

Leaving a sponge in a patient is a so-called “never event” to safety-assurance agencies and an almost certain way to precipitate a malpractice case. Current protocols require frequent counts and ...

Almost 140 gauze swabs have been left inside patients following surgery in the past 8 years, despite being classed as never events by the NHS, a new report has revealed. The Health Services Safety ...

Medical errors can have devastating consequences for patients, and one of the most alarming errors is the retention of surgical items in a patient’s body after surgery. Retained surgical items (RSIs) ...

Medline Industries, a U.S. distributor of medical supplies, has begun marketing a medical system that uses radio frequency (RF) to detect any surgical gauze, towels and sponges left behind in human ...