RFIDNews, 18 Sep 2009
Fresh on the heels of St. Mary’s Medical Center, the KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital (KKH) in Singapore has begun tagging swabs and gauzes with RFID microchips to ensure that none are left inside a patient post-surgery.
Under the system, all dressings brought into surgery are affixed with RFID tags. Before sewing a patient up, a reader is passed over the patient to detect any errant items.
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