Well: Ensuring Nothing's Left Behind in a Patient

Monday, September 24, 2012 - 22:20 in Health & Medicine

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.

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