Did your surgeons miss something? New system to prevent retained surgical items

Monday, February 6, 2012 - 11:31 in Health & Medicine

It may sound like something from a TV medical drama, but the incidence of surgeons leaving something behind in the body is very real at hospitals across the country. But researchers have now created a new system using state-of-the-art technologies to insure that no foreign objects are left behind during surgery.

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