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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. FUD campaign. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    This is plain FUD against the "RFID is evil" movement. Instead of talking about implanting RFID tags into anyone undergoing surgery for any reason, the article talks about using RFID to keep from implanting things in people. This is very simply a FUD campaign against the RFID is evil movement, and I for one am ashamed of Slashdot for falling for this "news".