Surgical Sponges Left Inside The Patient Body – Using New RFID Technology To Prevent Medical Malpractice, Improve Patient Safety
I have written a series of articles focusing on simple methods of preventing injuries/medical malpractice in the hospital operating room setting, involving surgical sponges/towels left inside a patient’s body. The medical field calls this “retained sponge” situations, but patients suffering this malpractice just find out that they have a major infection and need to have…