New technologies hope to prevent items left behind during surgery
Accreditation Connection, January 3, 2008
A report in 2003 from the New England Journal of Medicine stated that foreign objects were left in patients after abdominal surgeries once every 1,000 to 1,500 surgeries. Several new devices have emerged intended to help cut down on this preventable error, according to the Chicago Tribune.
These advances include a bar-coding system for surgical sponges and other items commonly left behind after surgery, and a system that uses radio frequency alerts to let healthcare workers know if sponges are still inside the patient before the surgeon closes.
The Joint Commission has been urging hospitals to develop means to prevent these errors from occurring, and CMS announced in late 2007 it would no longer pay providers when a foreign object left within a patient required additional surgery.
A full report on these devices can be found here.
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