System And Method For Recording Events That Occur During A Medical Procedure, Including Events Associated With The Inventorying Of Articles Used During The Procedure

a technology of event recording and medical procedure, applied in sustainable waste treatment, applications, instruments, etc., can solve the problems of increasing patient care costs, slowing the recovery of patients, and injuring or inducing infections, so as to improve hospital efficiency, optimize patient attention, and reduce manual entry
US20180353256A1Inactive Publication Date: 2018-12-13STRYKER CORP
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Patent Type
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STRYKER CORP
Publication Date
2018-12-13
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Abstract

A sponge reconciliation system for maintaining an inventory of articles used during a medical or surgical procedure, where, in the event an article for which the status needs to be reconciled is left in a patient, the system generates a record that the article is in a partially reconciled state and when a subsequent procedure is performed, the scanner employed during the procedure has the records of the partially reconciled articles associated with the patient.
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FIELD OF THE INVENTION

[0001] This invention is related to a sponge reconciliation system and method for ensuring proper removal of surgical sponges following a medical procedure, including generating a log of events that occur during the performance of a medical procedure. The log maintained by the system and method of this invention is especially useful for accounting for articles used in the procedure and determining the states of these articles.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

[0002] It is sometimes useful to maintain a log of the events that occur during an activity. One such type of activity is the performance of a medical or surgical procedure. There are a number of reasons why such a log is useful. It is desirable to account for the whereabouts of articles that are applied to, placed in or used on the patient on which the procedure is performed. These articles include disposable articles such as sponges, towels, suture needles, clips and staples. These articles also include reusable ...

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