A gathering storm of rising malpractice costs, payment penalties, new quality frameworks, patient safety report cards and media attention may be leaving healthcare ...

“The preponderance of clinical evidence shows manual counting of sponges alone, even with the use of x-ray is an inadequate protocol to achieving the goal of eliminating the incidence of retained ...

Many hospitals have yet to embrace technologies that would reduce the risk of leaving surgical items in patients, USA Today reported. Retained foreign bodies, such as sponges, account for almost half ...

The following article is written by Jim Sweeney, SVP of sales and marketing at ClearCount Medical Solutions. Retained surgical sponges are one of the oldest surgical complications documented in ...

The SurgiCount product has been available for years, but Stryker is now standing by its product in a unique and perhaps rarely confident way. The device company is calling it the SurgiCount Promise.

A new report warns nearly 800 people have had surgical instruments left in them following a procedure since 2005, putting them at risk for serious harm. The report comes from The Joint Commission, a ...

Retained surgical sponges are a prevalent and often costly error, with the average malpractice lawsuit totaling $600,000.1 Due to the scope of the problem and its costly repercussions, Stryker decided ...

EISENHOWER ARMY MEDICAL CENTER, Fort Gordon, Ga. (July 1, 2015) -- Retained Surgical Items refers to things inadvertently left in body spaces following an operation. If not detected and removed, these ...

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 ...

Stryker has launched a risk-sharing program for hospitals that invest in the SurgiCount Safety-Sponge System. The program, called the SurgiCount Promise, includes up to considerable product-liability ...

CARLSBAD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--RF Surgical Systems Inc. (RFS), the market leader in retained surgical item detection, debuted the RF Assure Delivery System for improving birth safety this week at ...

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