284 Curr Probl Surg, May 2007 required to reduce our errors to zero. Surgeons must take
the lead in the prevention of RSI. Surgeons should place only radiologically detectable items …

Given the increasing complexity of both the modern health care environment and the overall
patient population, reduction of medical errors is a high priority task for health policy makers …

BACKGROUND: Medical errors during surgery are not well studied. To define risk factors
associated with this type of error, we performed a case control analysis. METHODS: We …

BACKGROUND: Retained surgical items (RSI) continue to occur. Large RSI studies are few
due to low RSI frequency in single institutions and the medicolegal implications …

Retained surgical sponges (RSS) are an avoidable complication following surgical
operations. RSS can elicit either an early exudative-type reaction or a late aseptic fibrous …

Objective To review the details surrounding cases of patients found to have retained
laparotomy sponges after surgical procedures and share policy changes that have led to …

Background Medical errors such as retained foreign bodies (RFB) during surgery are not
well studied. To define risk factors associated with this type of error, we performed …

BACKGROUND: Emergency surgery increases the risk of a retained surgical sponge (RSS)
by 9-fold. In most cases, surgical counts are falsely reported as correct. We hypothesized …

Introduction Gossypiboma or retained surgical sponge is a rare but serious complication of
abdominal surgery. Clinical and radiological polymorphism of gossypiboma makes an …

There are great opportunities to enhance patient safety in office practice, but the pattern of
medical errors and techniques to reduce their frequency appears to differ from the hospital …