Sometimes good ideas don’t always work out the way we expected. New data reported this week show that implanting sponges soaked with antibiotics into surgical wounds may not reduce the incidence of ...

The growing number of surgical procedures, increasing prevalence of chronic diseases, and the ongoing rise in global healthcare expenditure are the factors expected to drive the growth of the global ...

(WUSA9) -- Lenny LeClair underwent routine surgery for a digestive disorder in Florida in 2005. Months later, he began experiencing excruciating stomach pain and non-stop vomiting. LeClair says, "Over ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- A Kentucky jury awarded nearly $10.5 million to a woman whose leg was amputated after a surgical sponge was left inside her body for six years. According to The Courier Journal, ...

Two surgical sponges were left in a woman's abdomen for at least six years, according to a new report in the New England Journal of Medicine. Two surgical sponges were left in a woman's abdomen for at ...

June 19, 2007 — The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved 510(k)s for a surgical sponge-counting system for the detection and counting of surgical sponges and towels during surgical ...

PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ClearCount Medical Solutions, a leader in patient safety solutions, announced today that it has received approval to affix the CE mark to its SmartSponge and SmartWand-DTX ...

I was observing an operation once when, near the end of the long and tense procedure, a manual count of the surgical sponges showed one was missing. The following few minutes were not fun to watch as ...

Surgical sponges embedded with a radiofrequency chip were identified 100% of the time, an accuracy rate far better than traditional counting or use of radiographs during surgery, according to a study ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- A Kentucky jury awarded nearly $10.5 million to a woman whose leg was amputated after a surgical sponge was left inside her body for six years. According to The Courier Journal, ...

"Retained surgical items" can cause pain, discomfort, sepsis or even death Two surgical sponges were left in a woman’s abdomen for at least six years, according to a new report in the New England ...