Israel has developed a new patent– a chip to be attached to surgical instruments to insure that random scalpels don't get "forgotten" inside a patient's body:
Researchers discovered that doctors "forget" surgical instruments in patients' bodies once in 1500 surgeries, an “oversight” which causes complications, repeated surgeries and even death.
By attaching the chip to a surgical instrument, the surgeon would be able to track it at any given moment on a huge screen inside the operating room.
"Up until now, instruments used to be counted, thereby increasing chance of errors," said Rubi Helbertal, CEO of Haldor, the company that developed the new chip.
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