Medical errors can have devastating consequences for patients, and one of the most alarming errors is the retention of surgical items in a patient’s body after surgery. Retained surgical items (RSIs) ...

Demand for Intuitive Surgical's da Vinci surgical robot is growing faster than the company's sales of new robots.

Surgerii Robotics has raised funding to further develop and market its SHURUI single-port endoscopic robot in Europe and ...

A critical incident caused by a shortage of surgical instruments saw a hospital trust cancel about 1,300 surgeries over the ...

Moon Surgical recently raised $55.5 million for its robotic surgical assistant, which has earned regulatory clearance in the U.S. and European Union. The startup also appointed Fred Moll, founder of ...

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In 2011, Shimane University Hospital, in Japan, deployed a high-frequency RFID solution to track surgical instruments used on patients through cleaning, sterilization and storage. The Rigshospitalet ...

While surgical screws or sponges can cost a hospital less than a penny each, when a surgeon accentially leaves one of these behind in a patient's body the mistake can cost both patientsa and ...

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - Nearly 1% of all surgical instruments in hospitals nationwide are rejected before they get to the operating room. They’re screened for blemishes left over from the sterilization ...

When John Harrison checked into a Texas hospital in 2009 for rotator cuff surgery, he thought that after a six-week recovery period, he’d be as good as new. But two weeks after the operation, the 63 ...