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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

MUNDELEIN, IL--(Marketwire - January 13, 2010) - Medline Industries, Inc. has been named the exclusive distributor for the SmartWand-DTX TM and SmartSponge® System, the only FDA-cleared systems using ...

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) ...

Compact design builds on ClearCount’s clinically preferred RFID-based technology, improving patient safety and OR productivity The SmartSponge Flex provides a dedicated basin for sponge accounting ...

Jan. 13—Attorneys asked jurors Monday to award more than $45 million to a woman who underwent a 2019 surgery at Presbyterian Hospital that left a 13-inch metal instrument in her abdomen for nearly two ...