First New York Hospital Adopts the SurgiCount Medical Safety-Sponge(TM) System

With the new “never-never” provisions of Medicare and insurers now not paying for procedures that entail errors, like leaving an instrument or sponge inside a patient, products such as this one are sure to pick up some momentum, wave the magic wand over the area of the body to see if anything is left inside. This would appear to be much faster and efficient than doing a manual count. BD

First posted here in March, 2008.

SurgiCount's Safety-Sponge(TM) System consists of individually bar-coded surgical sponges and an easy-to-use portable scanner that validates traditional hand sponge counts and will be implemented across all services, thus offering the same standard of care to all of their patients.

First New York Hospital Adopts the SurgiCount Medical Safety-Sponge(TM) System - MarketWatch