System And Method For Recording Events That Occur During A Medical Procedure, Including Events Associated With The Inventorying Of Articles Used During The Procedure

摘要

A sponge reconciliation system for maintaining an inventory of articles used during a medical or surgical procedure, where, in the event an article for which the status needs to be reconciled is left in a patient, the system generates a record that the article is in a partially reconciled state and when a subsequent procedure is performed, the scanner employed during the procedure has the records of the partially reconciled articles associated with the patient.