NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The routine count of sponges and instruments used and retrieved during surgery comes up with a discrepancy in 1 in 8 operations, investigators report. However, almost ...

Almost 140 gauze swabs have been left inside patients following surgery in the past 8 years, despite being classed as never events by the NHS, a new report has revealed. The Health Services Safety ...

Medical errors can have devastating consequences for patients, and one of the most alarming errors is the retention of surgical items in a patient’s body after surgery. Retained surgical items (RSIs) ...