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September 24, 2012

Well: Ensuring Nothing's Left Behind in a Patient

International Herald Tribune - Posted: September 24th, 2012, 5:09pm EDT
Every year in the United States, 4,000 cases of "retained surgical items" -- clamps, scalpels, scissors and sponges -- are left inside a patient's body after surgery.img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.nytimes.com/c/34625/f/640346/s/23c4f9fa/mf.gif' border='0'/

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