BACK TO BASICS: A FRESH LOK AT SURGICAL COUNTS AND PREVENTATIVE MEASURES IN THE PREVENTION OF RETAINED FOREIGN BODIES

Course overview

This article focuses on a very real issue in the surgical suite, retained foreign bodies. The AORN guidleines about foreign bodies does not dictate who or even exactly how counts shoudl be performed - just that nothing should be unintentionally left in the patient. This article takes a reall look at the issue and offers some insight to retained foreign bodies.