RFID Tags Keep Sponges Out Of Surgery Patients

Siemens and other companies are starting to embed RFID chips in surgical sponges, reports The Raw Feed.

"Doctors attached RFID chips to surgical sponges and then waved a wand over a patient after surgery. The chips alerted the doctor if a sponge was left inside 100 percent of the time".

According to ABC Action News, "out of the 40 million surgeries performed in the United States each year, about 1,500 Americans will leave the operating room with a surgical instrument left in their body. Sometimes it does no harm, but in some cases the consequences are deadly."

emily | 10:30 AM | Barcode Technologies / RFID Tags / NFC |
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