Making an impact in the fight against retained surgical sponges is worth talking about. Read on to learn more about this critical issue.
Surgical sponges left inside woman for at least six years.
An automatic surgical sponge counting system fits seamlessly with operating room (OR) protocols, helping to verify manual counts.
“Sponges being left behind is the number one contributor to the number one surgical never event, which is retained surgical items,” says Jason Davies, senior brand manager with Stryker Surgical Safety.
Medical products maker Stryker Corp. has for years produced some very high-tech devices that surgeons use to be more successful in operating rooms.
A new surgical safety system is being used to improve patient care in more than 550 hospitals nationwide.
Stryker Corp. announced that more than 550 hospitals nationwide are using the SurgiCount Safety-Sponge System and have accounted for nearly 200 million surgical sponges around the United States in the past five years.
The modern hospital operating room is no place for technophobes or Luddites. Just as no doctor or nurse today would countenance the use of “medicinal” leeches to draw out the “bad blood” that physicians in medieval times thought caused many of their patients’ ailments, there is simply no good reason to rely solely on whiteboards to track the use of surgical sponges in the operating room.
A healthy patient who was expected to make a full recovery from a routine surgical procedure is found dead in bed from an unintentional opioid overdose.
Kalamazoo, Mich.-based Stryker released its SurgiCount Tablet, a touch-screen interface for its SurgiCount Safety-Sponge System. Here’s what you should know.
According to an article in Outpatient Surgery, every day, operating room (OR) teams nationwide leave almost a dozen surgical sponges inside their patients.
Retained surgical sponges continue to be a frequently reported sentinel event in operating rooms across the U.S.
HUNTINGTON – A Mason County man is suing Cabell Huntington Hospital after he claims it was negligent and left a sponge in his stomach.
Erasable whiteboards are useful for the classroom, where lessons change and teachers need the ability to erase old notes and write new ones with ease.
Retained surgical sponges are a prevalent and often costly error, with the average malpractice lawsuit totaling $600,000.1
Retained surgical sponges are a prevalent and often costly error, with the average malpractice lawsuit totaling $600,000.1
Stryker Corp. has announced that more than 180 million SurgiCount Safety Sponges have been used in an estimated 10 million surgeries around the United States in the past five years.
Retained surgical sponges are the number one reported surgical never event, occurring roughly a dozen times per day in the United States.
Throughout the United States, surgeons have used Stryker’s SurgiCount Safety Sponges in an estimated 10 million surgeries in the past five years.
Stryker today announced that more than 180 million SurgiCount Safety Sponges have been used in an estimated 10 million surgeries around the United States in the past five years.
Imagine buying a new car only to learn that it doesn’t work as advertised and there’s nothing you can do about it. That’s essentially what happens when you take a pricey medication or need an expensive medical device like a heart valve or new knee — there’s no guarantee it will work and you won’t get your money back if it doesn’t.
Stryker Corp. has announced that more than 180 million SurgiCount Safety Sponges have been used in an estimated 10 million surgeries around the United States in the past five years.
While surgical screws or sponges can cost a hospital less than a penny each, when a surgeon accentially leaves one of these behind in a patient’s body the mistake can cost both patients and healthcare providers dearly.
More than 250,000 Americans a year die from medical errors, including misdiagnoses, communications breakdowns, medication mistakes and botched surgeries.
Insight from the study’s co-author Dr. Marty Makary, physician at Johns Hopkins
You’ve heard those hospital horror stories where the surgeon removes the wrong body part or operates on the wrong patient or accidentally leaves medical equipment in the person they were operating on.
In a wide-ranging interview at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons in Orlando in March, Lobo addressed innovation
Stryker Corp. is so confident about the efficacy and reliability of a new surgical safety device that it’s willing to issue a guarantee to hospitals that use it.
Stryker has launched a risk-sharing program for hospitals that invest in the SurgiCount Safety-Sponge System.
Company announces “SurgiCount Promise” multi-million dollar risk-sharing program.
The SurgiCount product has been available for years, but Stryker is now standing by its product in a unique and perhaps rarely confident way.
Stryker said today it is launching the SurgiCount Promise risk-sharing program, offering up to $5 million in product-liability costs to hospitals which use its SurgiCount safety-sponge system.
For some time now, medtech companies have been heeding the call from providers to assume more financial risk for the products they make.
Stryker is making the SurgiCount Promise, a risk-sharing program including a money-back guarantee.
Complications caused by retained items can cause facilities millions of dollars in lawsuits and damages.
OKLAHOMA CITY – An avid runner has been sidelined, after she said a sponge was left inside her knee following surgery.
SAGINAW, MI — The family of a Frankenmuth man will return to a Saginaw County courtroom after winning an appeal in a malpractice lawsuit filed against a Saginaw hospital.
SIMI VALLEY — A woman is suing Simi Valley Hospital after she says she has lived a nightmare for four years due to a medical mistake.
Newly Implemented System Helps to Increase Patient Safety and Reduce Error Rates
SurgiCount Medical, Inc. and LHP Hospital Group, Inc. (“LHP”) today announced the system wide implementation of the SurgiCount Safety-Sponge® System at LHP facilities.
Ketchikan Medical Center (KMC) in Ketchikan, Alaska will become the first hospital in the PeaceHealth system to implement the SurgiCount Safety-Sponge® System.
In an effort to further enhance patient safety, Ketchikan Medical Center (KMC) will become the first hospital in the PeaceHealth system and the fourth facility in Alaska to implement the SurgiCount Safety-Sponge® in its Operating and Delivery Rooms.
SurgiCount Medical, Inc., the wholly-owned operating subsidiary of Patient Safety Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: PSTX), today announced that its market leading retained sponge prevention solution will be featured in a poster presentation by the University Hospitals Case Medical Center (UHCMC) at the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) 60th Congress March 3-7 in San Diego, Calif..