2 results about "Surgical Sponges" patented technology

System and method of managing one or more surgical articles, wherein the surgical article can include a surgical sponge comprising an identification element, and wherein managing can include counting, locating, or both. The identification element can be a RFID tag. The RFID tag stores unique identification information relative to the surgical sponge. The system and method for detecting RFID tags may include a hand-held RFID reader operable in a first count-in mode and in a second count-out mode; the hand-held RFID reader may be receivable in a cradle that can determine the presence of the hand-held RFID reader in the cradle; and where operation of the hand-held RFID reader in the second count-out mode is enabled when the hand-held RFID reader is present in the cradle and the second count-out mode is disabled when the hand-held RFID reader is absent from the cradle.

Systems and methods for quantifying blood loss with a surgical sponge management system. A data reader detects a tag of the surgical sponge, and one or more processors identify a sponge type of the surgical sponge based on a unique identifier. A presentation window is displayed on a user interface with dimensions of the presentation window based on the identified sponge type. The processor(s) determine whether characteristics of the surgical sponge satisfy acceptance criteria based on the identified type of the surgical sponge. The acceptance criteria may include sponge presence, folded sponge, partial sponge, presentation distance, correct sponge, moving sponge, mask validation, and sponge supervision. An optical sensor captures a color image of the surgical sponge once the characteristics satisfy the acceptance criteria. A volume of the blood or blood component on the surgical sponge is estimated based on the color image, and displayed on a user interface.