Borough Park, NY – Maimonides Medical Center has adopted the RF Surgical Detection System in its surgical suites. The RF Surgical RF Detection System consists of radio-frequency (RF) detection technology designed to identify and prevent accidentally retained surgical items (RSI) from remaining inside a patient following surgery.
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Maimonides is using the system as an adjunct to the standard practice of manual counting, to enhance patient safety in the operating room. The ability to detect surgical materials immediately and verify counting provides assurance in reducing error and improves patient safety.
When the RF Surgical Detection System is activated and the wand is passed over a patient, an audible and visible alarm alerts the operating-room surgical team that a surgical sponge or other material fitted with an RF tag remains inside a patient’s body. With this information, clinicians can potentially prevent repeat surgeries and unnecessary x-rays.
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Just the other day a patient left with some tools,jewlery,gloves,surgical masks, and some garbage in the stomache. Thank goodness for these machines people will be able to leave the hospital and go straight to the airport with ease.
do they really need a special machine to do what an x-ray machine can do?
Similar to those body scanners….
They should invest in a machine that tracks down on patients who are waiting for more then 8 hours to get treatment
i guess all of you dont know of someone who actually had stuff left in them , like gauze which can get infected and cause many problems if not removed. i know of people who it happened to especially after childbirth and happens to be one of them was very lucky they caught it on time cause had it been left in her a little longer she would have needed emergancy surgery.