FDA approves new surgical instrument tracking technology

According to reports, a biospectrumasia in operation process tracking sponge and new technologies for surgical instruments, recently won the United States food and Drug Administration (FDA) for approval.

Located in the United States by Haldor advanced technology company has developed a system to mention ORLocate alternative medical practitioner to complete the complex and time-consuming surgical instruments inventory, improve security, the work is very prone to human error.

The system uses radio frequency identification technology help surgery team avoid surgery during the instruments remain in the patient.

Current United States for the cost of the medical errors are more than 20 billion a year, is the only system based on RFID, not only can be used to inventory the sponge, an inventory of surgical instruments.

"Surgical teams need to rely on manual count to ensure the sponge and surgical instruments do not remain in the patient," Haldor Chairman and CEO Mr. Jacob Poremba and said.

"Large hospitals every year takes place from 2-4 items left after surgery in patients with events. ”

According to the 2007 year of the Journal of Surgical Research, published the results of the study show that remain in the operative articles in more than one-third for surgical instruments (52% of radiation light cannot penetrate the sponge, 43% for surgical instruments).

In Northwood NAMSA laboratory testing, monitoring and orientation of the sponge ORLocate and surgical instrument location accuracy up to 99.8%, NAMSA is the world's largest medical devices agency research organization (CRO), and in Germany and Israel have laboratories.

It through unique RFID identification technology markers used during operation of each article. The label and hearing aid battery size. Is marked by the instrument and the sponge by covering aseptic area of antenna and application software for automatic counting consecutively.

In operation number for articles prior to registration, when you use automatic tagging.

Complete surgery surgical group before you can be sure that the ORLocate has an inventory of each item, ensure that the safety of the patients, but also greatly improves the operating room logistics and the efficiency of water do the job.

ORLocate may also apply to disinfection processing and distribution sector (SPD) for advanced surgical instruments life cycle tracking solution.

This ensures that the aseptic processing door before the operation is simple and accurate for surgical instruments for baling. ORLocate can label and tracking devices to make hospital's overall productivity is maximized while also recognizes defective and needs repair.

"ORLocate may at any time the number of available items first and additional number, not the number of back into position, clean and used a number of sponge and the number of the last inventory," said Mr. Poremba.

"The complex counts and aseptic inventory management capabilities, not only can improve hospital efficiency and ensures the safety of patients. ”