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 ...

BELLEVUE, Wash. & CHAPEL HILL, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Researchers from UNC Health Care today reported positive, interim results from the largest ever prospective multi-institution study of any medical ...

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 ...

IRVINE, Calif., Feb. 27, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- SurgiCount Medical, Inc., the wholly-owned operating subsidiary of Patient Safety Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: PSTX), today announced that its market ...

A promising way to reduce harmful surgical errors, it turns out, borrows a low-tech tool long used by airline pilots and grocery shoppers: The checklist. "It's evidence-based," says Leslie Ray, a ...

The Florida Department of Health has ordered a general surgeon, who left two sponges in a patient during bariatric surgery in 2010, to pay a $15,000 administrative fee and deliver a lecture on ...

RENO, Nev. and ROCKVILLE, Md., Aug. 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Melzi Surgical, a medical device company focused on providing innovative technology to locate lost surgical sharps and Spartan Medical Inc.

Medical mistakes are now estimated to be the third leading cause of death in the United States. There is troubling new information about the hidden agony caused by foreign objects left behind by ...

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 ...

A woman has sued a Redding hospital and doctor, claiming medical personnel left a sponge inside her body following surgery. The 41-year-old woman went around with a sponge lodged in her cervix for ...