Medical sponges and towels, instruments and other items are left inside bodies during surgeries more often than patients would imagine, up to 2,000 times a year in the United States by one estimate.

Retained surgical items can create numerous financial and reputational consequences for hospitals, not to mention serious health risks for patients. The National Quality Forum identifies retained ...

1. Know what the risk factors are. Dr. Port says the most common risk factors for retained surgical items are more complex operations, operations requiring more than one surgical team, late night ...

In this week's Doc Talk with Dr. Ward, Jenny talks with Dr. Ward and Dr. Powers, Facial Plastic Surgeons from Ward Institute, about surgical and non-surgical neck procedures and why someone may be ...

We have the surgical and medical skills to improve lives but are woefully unprepared to save patients from their own self hatred. Often times we must surrender to the love of families, communities ...

It is important, however, to obtain these data from a large, busy surgical ward. The battery of phages used is that recommended by the International Subcommittee on Staphylococcal Phage Typing.

There's no excuse. Tina Marlin It is not rocket science. I am a surgical tech. Before the case begins and as the abdomen is starting to be closed, you do an instrument, sponge and needle count.

Running on empty The spaces are desperately needed. Domingo Luciani is the last hospital in Caracas with a functioning pediatric surgical unit; of its 18 operating rooms, only three are still in use.

A day at the 24-capacity inpatient Surgical Ward at William Beaumont Army Medical Center is action-packed with patients transported to and from appointments, plenty of visiting family members and ...

Since 1978, when Louise Brown was born in England, the first baby produced by in vitro fertilization, or IVF as the process is formally known, an estimated 120 programs have been started in the ...