It wasn’t long ago that we reported on SurgiCount’s Safety-Sponge System, an electronic bar code strategy designed to eliminate retained sponges during surgery.
The latest news is a SurgiCount announcement that there have been no retained sponges in 200,000 operations employing their technology. The expectation that these “Never Events” will approach zero, is starting to become a reality…and we want to thank every “gadget head” out there devoted to advancing medicine!
Press release: SurgiCount’s Safety-Sponge System Reaches 200,000th Procedure Milestone Without a Reported Retained Sponge…
SurgiCount Medical…
Flashback: “Never Events” Prevented With SurgiCount’s Safety-Sponge
SurgiCount’s Safety-Sponge: 200,000 “Never Events” and Counting…
October 23rd, 2008 
Stephen Sheehan Surgery