Implementation of a Protocol to Reduce Occurrence of Retained Sponges After Vaginal Delivery

Lutgendorf, Monica A.; Schindler, Lynnett L.; Hill, Jamal; Magann, Everett F.; O’Boyle, John D.

doi:10.7205/milmed-d-10-00438

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“…33 Our sample showed lower amounts of compensation payments than those reported internationally, both for obstetrics and gynecology. 28,34 The distribution among subspecialties also differs from that described elsewhere.…”

Section: Claimed Events 1990e1999 2000e2010contrasting

confidence: 45%

Analysis of obstetrics and gynecology professional liability claims in Catalonia, Spain (1986–2010)

Gómez‐Durán¹,

Mulà-Rosías

Lailla-Vicens

et al. 2013

Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine

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Section: Claimed Events 1990e1999 2000e2010contrasting

confidence: 45%

Analysis of obstetrics and gynecology professional liability claims in Catalonia, Spain (1986–2010)

Gómez‐Durán¹,

Mulà-Rosías

Lailla-Vicens

et al. 2013

Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine

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“…There are many studies which indicates that surgical count was performed operation room nurses and supports our findings in literature [20,21]. Moreover it is emphasized that circulating nurse shoud write standardized count records on a white board in every operation rooms [22]. Our study is consistent with the literature.…”

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Surgical Count Implementations in the Operating Rooms: An Example from Turkey

Candaş¹,

Bulut²,

Çilingir³

et al. 2017

Surgery

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Journal of Surgery IntroductionOperating rooms, due to their complex structure and crowdedness and cases that can change suddenly, are the surgical units where unwanted incidents can occur frequently [1]. Forgetting a sponges and instruments in the surgical field is one of these unwanted incidents that may occur in an operating room [2,3]. Forgetting a sponges and instruments inside patient's body, is not a medical error but a preventable incident [4,5]. Studies demonstrate that the rate of forgetting a surgical sponges and instruments inside a patient's body, ranges from 1/1,500 to 1/19,000 [5,6]. American Surgical Association stated that retained surgical instruments case is occured at least once a year in each hospital and significant procedures are applied for 8,000 and 18,000 of these [7,8]. Retained surgical instruments cases mostly happens in the surgical field of abdomen (46-55%), but also pelvis, chest, and vagina can be included in this category [5,9]. The frequency of retained foreign objects cases ranges from 1/1,000 to 1/1,500 in abdominal and pelvic surgery. Although it is not frequent, retained foreign objects cases is found in orthopedics, urology and neurologic operations [5].During the course of surgery, everthing which can cause a reaction in patient, can be identified as foreign object. Within this scope, the most frequent retained surgical instruments are, sponge that ranks first and followed by surgical instruments, ecarteur, needle and compress [3,9,10]. Furthermore, broken surgical instruments, rubber tubes, and AbstractAim: Although retained foreign bodies are a rare and preventable problem, it is one of the medical errors in surgery can have heavy medico-legal consequences. Retained sponges can cause significant morbidity, prolonged hospital stay, postoperative complications, pain and disabilities. Also the costs associated with treatment of retained surgical items can be considerable. The study was undertaken to determine the current implementations related to instruments and sponges counts in the operating rooms in Turkey.Method: This descriptive study was carried out with 261 operating room nurses. The data collection tool was a questionnaire which was designed on the Google Drive application using the internet. Thereafter its internet link was distributed throughout Turkey using nursing, surgical nursing and operating room nursing social media websites; the answers were gathered in the same way.Results: Ninety-five percent of participants stated that instruments and sponges were usually counted by the scrub nurses (88.5%). Sponges (97.7%), pads (95.4%), tampons (89.2%), surgical instruments (88.1%) and needles (70.4%) were the items which were usually counted. According to 81.6% of the nurses, a written count protocol exists for their hospitals, however, they noted there was a significant difference in implementation among the various institutions (p=0.026). While 49.8% of participants stated that the count before surgery was done by nurses, 23.7% reported that the count was perfor...

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“…The movement (in and out) of all items of the operatory field must be documented, without trusting memory, preventing the occurrence of errors of retention. The forms must be included in the patients' files, and the record of the counting process must be carried out by the circulating technician (1)(2)(11)(12)(13) . The literature recommends the standardization of the counting process, since this measure may contribute to the prevention of retention of surgical items (14)(15) .…”

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“…Sponges must be radiopaque, preferably for laparotomy (big sponge), standardized by number in each package, checked before the beginning of the surgery by the surgical technologist and circulating technician, recorded in appropriate forms, as well as noted on the surgical room's board, for visualization of the whole team. Sponges to dry hands and those used by anesthesiologists must remain separate from sponges of the sterile field; however, neither can be taken from the operation room until the end of the surgery (2,(11)(12)(13)15) . The counting of sharps was the procedure with the least report of undertaking in this study.…”

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Processo de contagem cirúrgica: evidências para a segurança do paciente

Freitas

Mendes

Galvão

2016

Rev. Gaúcha Enferm.

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Objective: To analyze the surgical count process according to reports of nurses working in surgical centers of a city in the state of São Paulo. Methods:Cross-sectional study with a sample of 55 nurses. Data collection occurred from August to December 2013, with application of an instrument submitted to face and content validation, composed of data on variables regarding characteristics of nurses, hospital, and surgical count process.Results: Fifty-two (94.5%) nurses reported that the surgical count process was carried out in their workplaces. A statistically significant association was found between the surgical count process and the type of institution (P=0.046), and between the presence of a surgical technologist and the processes for counting surgical instruments (P<0.001) and sponges (P=0.016). Conclusion:The results found contributed to understand how, by whom, and when the surgical count process was carried out in the studied hospital. Métodos: Estudo transversal, com amostra de 55 enfermeiros. A coleta de dados ocorreu de agosto a dezembro de 2013, com aplicação de instrumento submetido à validade de face e conteúdo, composto de dados sobre variáveis relativas à caracterização do enfermeiro, hospital e processo de contagem cirúrgica.Resultados: 52 (94,5%) enfermeiros responderam que o processo de contagem cirúrgica era realizado no seu local de trabalho. Houve associação estatisticamente significante do processo de contagem cirúrgica com o tipo de instituição (P=0,046), da presença do instrumentador com os processos de contagem de instrumentos cirúrgicos (P<0,001) e de compressas (P=0,016). Conclusão:Os resultados evidenciados fornecem subsídios para a compreensão de como, por quem e quando o processo de contagem cirúrgica era realizado no contexto hospitalar.Palavras-chave: Enfermagem perioperatória. Segurança do paciente. Pesquisa em enfermagem. RESUMENObjetivo: Analizar el procedimiento de recuento quirúrgico según el relato de los enfermeros que trabajan en unidades de centros quirúrgicos de un municipio del estado de São Paulo.Métodos: Estudio transversal con una muestra de 55 enfermeros. La recolección de datos ocurrió entre agosto y diciembre de 2013 con la aplicación de instrumento sometido a la validación de cara y contenido, compuesto de los datos sobre las variables relacionadas a la caracterización del enfermero, hospital y procedimiento de recuento quirúrgico.Resultados: 52 (94,5%) enfermeros respondieron que el procedimiento de recuento quirúrgico se llevó a cabo en el lugar de trabajo. Se observó una asociación estadísticamente significativa del procedimiento de recuento quirúrgico con el tipo de institución (P=0,046); la presencia de matorral con los procedimientos de recuento de los instrumentos quirúrgicos (P <0,001) y de compresas (P=0,016). Conclusión:Los resultados encontrados ayudan en la comprensión acerca de cómo, por quién y cuándo el procedimiento de recuento quirúrgico se llevó a cabo en el ámbito hospitalario.Palabras clave: Enfermería perioperatoria. Seguridad del pac...

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Implementation of a Protocol to Reduce Occurrence of Retained Sponges After Vaginal Delivery

Abstract: With appropriate pre-implementation training, protocols which incorporate post-delivery vaginal sweep and sponge counts are well accepted by the health care team and can be incorporated into the delivery room routine.

Cited by 16 publications

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Analysis of obstetrics and gynecology professional liability claims in Catalonia, Spain (1986–2010)

Analysis of obstetrics and gynecology professional liability claims in Catalonia, Spain (1986–2010)

Surgical Count Implementations in the Operating Rooms: An Example from Turkey

Processo de contagem cirúrgica: evidências para a segurança do paciente

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