Technology that reduces surgical errors...using RFID technology...BD
Surgeries performed on the wrong organ or limb, or even on the wrong person, are rare, but a Washington University School of Medicine physician thinks he has a solution to prevent them. Dr. Richard Chole's CheckSite System is being used in six health care centers across the United States, including Center for Advanced Medicine, a partnership between Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University. The system uses a patient wristband with a microchip, and two sensors near each operating room door. If the operating team does not mark the proper spot to operate on a patient and fails to place a sticker on the wristband to deactivate the microchip, the sensors sound an alarm.
Chole got the idea for his system after a discussion at a medical staff meeting in 2004 centered on wrong-site surgeries. Shortly afterward, Chole saw security sensors in Home Depot and hatched a way to track the pre-operation procedure. He initiated the patent process in spring 2004 and launched CheckSite Medical Inc., a Town and Country company formed to develop and distribute the product.
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Other technologies similar to the CheckSite System exist. One of them is SurgiChip, a device that uses
radio frequency identification, or RFID, to encode patient information on a tag. The tags are then electronically read by handheld machines before surgery to verify identification.
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