Medical errors can have devastating consequences for patients, and one of the most alarming errors is the retention of surgical items in a patient’s body after surgery. Retained surgical items (RSIs) ...

One of the most dangerous places to be in America is on an Operating Room table. The Leapfrog Group estimates that as many as 400,000 patients die every year due to preventable hospital errors. And if ...

In 2011, Shimane University Hospital, in Japan, deployed a high-frequency RFID solution to track surgical instruments used on patients through cleaning, sterilization and storage. The Rigshospitalet ...

Clinicians used a new surgical technique to remove a separated endodontic instrument stuck about 2 mm below the tip of a patient's tooth root in a case published in the Journal of Endodontics. They ...