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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

Which surgical drain holders are best? If you are undergoing certain surgeries like a mastectomy or breast reconstruction, you will probably need surgical drains put in when you go home from the ...