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Surgical sponge

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  • US 4,917,694 A
  • Filed: 05/20/1986
  • Issued: 04/17/1990
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/19/1982
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A surgical sponge, comprising:

  • a sheet of absorbent material; and

    an elongated visually detectable element at a visible location on the sheet comprising a pair of elongated strands twisted about each other, one of said strands having a color which contrasts with the color of said sheet to facilitate visual inspection of the element prior to the use of the sponge, and the other of said strands having a color which in the presence of blood contrasts with the color of blood to significantly increase the visibility of the sponge in a patient'"'"'s body when saturated by body fluids with the color of the two strands being different from each other.

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