A cost-effective benefit to every OR.3
Increase OR efficiency while reducing costs and helping to prevent retained surgical sponges with Situate™ detection system.1,2,†
When relying on manual counts alone, missing sponges add:
to procedures3
Situate™ system RF users see an
average reduction of:
in OR times3,†
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†Compared to manual counting alone. The Situate™ Detection System is an adjunct to manual counting.
‡When used in accordance with operating instructions as demonstrated by one study. Specific circumstances such as high BMI patients or external interference requires additional operating instructions – please refer to the device IFU.
ΩTop hospitals according to U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals 2020 edition.
1. Boyd CR, Lottenberg L. Preventing Retained Surgical Sponges: Clinical and Economic Considerations. General Surgery
News Special Report. 2015;SR1525:1–8.
2.Steelman VM, Schaapveld AG, Perkhounkova Y, Storm HE, Mathias M. The hidden costs of reconciling surgical sponge counts. AORN J. 2015;102(5):498–506.
3. Williams TL, et al. Retained Surgical Sponges: Findings from Incident Reports and a Cost-Benefit Analysis of Radiofrequency Technology. J. Am. Coll. Surg. 2014.
4. Steelman VM. Sensitivity of detection of radiofrequency surgical sponges: a prospective, cross-over study. Am J Surg. 2011;201:233–237.
5. Based on internal Cognos reporting as of August 2019.
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