Operating room leaders and staff may need to re-work surgical count policies in order to prevent variation in surgical count practices and the incidence of retained surgical items, according to ...

Almost 140 gauze swabs have been left inside patients following surgery in the past 8 years, despite being classed as never events by the NHS, a new report has revealed. The Health Services Safety ...

After a Fresno, Calif.-based Community Regional Medical Center surgeon put a patient in serious jeopardy by leaving a surgical towel inside his body, the cancer center had to rethink its surgical ...