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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...