NOTHINGLEFTBEHIND

NoThing Left Behind®: A National Surgical Patient Safety Project to Prevent Retained Surgical Items... We have developed a taxonomy of retained surgical items and placed them into two groups; Group I is familiar to OR staff as items that are usually "counted" <except items in c) which are drapes or dressings and are not part of the surgical soft goods count>. These are soft goods, sharps, instruments and small miscellaneous items. Group II consist of devices, which are essentially any piece of equipment or tool that has a designated function used during a procedure and device fragments which are broken parts or pieces of a tool or device. If the surgeon makes a clinical decision that a device fragment cannot or will not be retrieved, this is called an unretrieved device fragment or UDF... A surgical item that was not intended to remain in a patient, is found in any part of the patient's body