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“We have had remarkable success with SurgiCount.”
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“It was clinicians training clinicians, which created a strong comfort level.”
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“It’s better patient care. We’ve never regretted it, and we would never go back.”
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“The Safety-Sponge System has given OR nurses at UCSF a tool they and surgeons can count on for an accurate count. Using this system for the past two years has provided relief for the entire surgical team and eliminated this preventable and devastating event.”
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“This guarantees we don’t leave anything behind. We’ll always do manual counts, but this gives us that additional support and keeps the receipt of what we’d done. It’s protection for the patients and the doctors.”
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We did the education with the Stryker team and the implementation was done with very few issues. Personally, I was amazed at the ease of the transition. The daily reports that are obtainable and produced are wonderful and allow for next day correction with individual staff members.
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“Surgical teams have been seeking a solution to this problem for decades. Our randomized trial of the Safety-Sponge System suggests that one is now at hand. Our study found it was readily adopted, was cost effective, and markedly improved detection of sponges that had been misplaced or miscounted in the operating room.”
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“After 18 months, the datamatrix-coded sponge (DMS) system eliminated sponge RSIs from a high volume surgical practice. The DMS system caused no work-flow disruptions or increases in case duration. Staff satisfaction was acceptable, with a high degree of trust in the system.”
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“What makes a missed count even trickier for a hospital is that it’s a non-defendable error, or a ‘never event.’ That’s why we put these standard practices in place…because then you can say, ‘We never, ever vary from this practice.’ We haven’t seen a single surgically retained item since implementation.”
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“By using this system, we intend to eliminate the chance of this happening to even one of our patients. The bar code system pays for itself many times over if we prevent just one retained sponge mishap.”
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“We are on a road to providing excellent, reproducible and sustainable quality of care to every person, every time, every touch – the investment in the SurgiCount system is an example of such efforts.”
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“After thorough diligence on available retained sponge prevention solutions, we concluded the SurgiCount Safety Sponge System is the safest, easiest and most complete retained sponge solution available.”
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“Once we saw the technology demonstrated, we felt from an operational standpoint that the RF process wasn’t nearly as elegant and easy to implement as SurgiCount; the notion of prevention rather than reaction went over well with the operating room directors…At the end of the day, though, it was really about this being just the right thing to do for patients; you can’t put a price on patient safety.”
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“We had a big case with about 80 lap sponges. I had relieved towards the end of the case and upon my first final sponge count, all the bag pouches looked full. But the SurgiCounter said I was missing one. I thought to myself, ‘I’m not missing anything,’ but I carefully recounted every pouch. Lo and behold, in the middle of the sponge bags was one empty pouch – and the counter had picked it up. This was a positive experience that could have had a much worse outcome. So, it is worth using and highly recommended as a good safety measure.”
2019
2018
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Surgical sponges left inside woman for at least six years
Surgical sponges left inside woman for at least six years.
2017
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Tablet system keeps tally of surgical sponges
An automatic surgical sponge counting system fits seamlessly with operating room (OR) protocols, helping to verify manual counts.
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Keeping Count
“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.
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Stryker builds surgical safety business with no-mistakes…
Medical products maker Stryker Corp. has for years produced some very high-tech devices that surgeons use to be more successful in operating rooms.
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Hospitals absorb surgical safety system
A new surgical safety system is being used to improve patient care in more than 550 hospitals nationwide.
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More than 550 hospitals improve patient safety…
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.
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Tracking surgical sponges: Technology avoids the danger
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.
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Cultivating a culture of safety
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.
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Stryker releases SurgiCount Tablet
Kalamazoo, Mich.-based Stryker released its SurgiCount Tablet, a touch-screen interface for its SurgiCount Safety-Sponge System. Here’s what you should know.
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Accounting for Surgical Sponges Should Not & Need Not Be…
Retained surgical sponges continue to be a frequently reported sentinel event in operating rooms across the U.S.
2016
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Retained Surgical Sponges: A Black Mark Against Whiteboards
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.
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The never-event costing the US healthcare system billions
Retained surgical sponges are a prevalent and often costly error, with the average malpractice lawsuit totaling $600,000.1
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How Stryker is leading the charge to eliminate
Retained surgical sponges are a prevalent and often costly error, with the average malpractice lawsuit totaling $600,000.1
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SurgiCount Safety-Sponge System Surpasses 10M Procedures
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.
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SurgiCount System Eliminates Risk
Retained surgical sponges are the number one reported surgical never event, occurring roughly a dozen times per day in the United States.
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US surgeons use Stryker’s SurgiCount Safety Sponges in 10M
Throughout the United States, surgeons have used Stryker’s SurgiCount Safety Sponges in an estimated 10 million surgeries in the past five years.
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Stryker SurgiCount Safety-Sponge System Surpasses
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.
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Money-back guarantee: the new trend in drug and device
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.
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SurgiCount Safety-Sponge System Surpasses 10M Procedures
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.
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Damages from left-behind surgical tools top billions…
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.
2014
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Patient Sues Hospital After Forgotten Surgical Sponge
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.