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Alex Macario MD

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  • Improving safety in the operating room: a systematic literature review of retained surgical sponges.

    Wan W, Le T, Riskin L, Macario A. Curr Opin Anaesthesiol. 2009; 22 (2): 207-14

    Gossypibomas are surgical sponges that are unintentionally left inside a patient during a surgical procedure. To improve this patient safety indicator, anesthesiologists will need to work with operating room personnel. This study's goal was to systematically review the literature on retained sponges to identify body location, time to discovery, methods for detection, and risk factors.

    PubMedID: 19390247

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