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 ...

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 ...

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.

Researchers suggest education for healthcare workers doesn’t do much to reduce rates of retained foreign objects during surgery, according to a study published in AORN Journal. Read the full report in ...

RF Surgical Systems, a developer of solutions for the detection and prevention of retained surgical sponges, has announced researchers from UNC Health Care, based in Chapel Hill, N.C., have reported ...

ALBANY — A middle-aged man walked around with a surgical retractor in his abdomen for five months after an operation at Albany Medical Center. A woman at Nassau University Medical Center on Long ...

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Mistakes which led surgical items to be left behind in patients post-op cost the South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust nearly £150,000 in damages, figures show. So-called retained foreign objects ...

North Bristol NHS Trust (NBT) has refuted claims suggesting high numbers of foreign items are being left inside patients, ...