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Surgical Tools to Include RFID

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the now-just-remember-to-use-the-wand dept.

andrewman327 writes "Reuters is reporting that hospitals are considering embedding RFID tags in surgical tools to prevent leaving them in patients. After closing a patient, doctors would wave a receiver over the body to look for the chips which would indicate that something was left inside. The biggest current stumbling block is the chip's size, though scientists hope they will continue shrinking as the state of the art advances."

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  1. Re:Okay. But... by Phroggy · · Score: 0, Redundant

    You can count instruments but a pile of bloody sponges is much harder to count.

    But the sponges won't be getting RFID chips anyway, so you still have the same problem.

    --
    $x='S24;r)>63/* h@<5+oZ)32"5cz';$me='phroggy'x$];
    $x=~y+ -xz+\0-Tx+;print$_^chop$me for split'',$x;
  2. I was wondering... by avatarz · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I was wondering what would happen if the RFID tag after all the steam and hot temperatures of the sterilization process....