Recent research shows educational intervention doesn’t do much to curb the incidence of retained foreign objects during surgery, according to a study published in AORN Journal. Researchers found a ...

Bruce Brient, MD, must pay a $15,000 administrative fee and deliver a lecture on retained objects after two sponges were left in a patient during bariatric surgery in 2010, according to a Gainesville ...

The ECRI Institute Patient Safety Organization has outlined three key recommendations for preventing retained foreign objects during robotically assisted surgery. Several factors contribute to the ...

The Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority offers a free, downloadable audit form designed to help healthcare organizations assess adverse events involving retained foreign objects for future ...

Feb. 6, 2012 -- Ann Arbor, Mich.: It may sound like something from a TV medical drama, but the incidence of surgeons leaving something behind in the body is very real at hospitals across the country.

Every day in the U.S., at least one patient leaves a surgery with something unintentionally left behind. From sponges used to absorb blood to broken surgical tools, these forgotten objects can linger ...

Surgery, by definition, has risks attached. And anything that cuts down on those risks is welcome. That’s why one system for tracking and locating “retained objects” — things left in patients after an ...

Surgery, by definition, has risks attached. And anything that cuts down on those risks is welcome. That’s why one system for tracking and locating “retained objects” — items left in patients after an ...