Risk factors and preventive strategies for unintentionally retained surgical sharps: a systematic review.

Background: A retained surgical item (RSI) is defined as a never-event and can have drastic consequences on patient, provider, and hospital. However, despite increased efforts, RSI events remain the number one sentinel event each year. Hard foreign bodies (e.

Incidence and OR team awareness of "near-miss" and retained surgical sharps: a national survey on United States operating rooms.

Introduction: A retained surgical sharp (RSS) is a never event and defined as a lost sharp (needle, blade, instrument, guidewire, metal fragment) that is not recovered prior to the patient leaving the operating room. A "near-miss" sharp (NMS) is an intraoperative event where there is a lost surgical sharp that is recovered prior to the patient leaving the operating room. With underreporting of such incidents, it is unrealistic to expect aggressive development of new prevention and detection strategies.

Rationale for Robotic-assisted Simple Prostatectomy for Benign Prostatic Obstruction.

Current evidence supports the role of robotic-assisted simple prostatectomy as safe and effective minimally invasive surgical treatment of benign prostatic obstruction.