Identification and accountability system for surgical sponges
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1. An automatic identification system for use with a reading device, said automatic identification system for accounting for and identifying a plurality of surgical sponges used during a surgical procedure, comprising:
- machine-readable information located on a plurality of physically unconnected surgical sponges, wherein each sponge of said plurality of surgical sponges has its own differentiating machine-readable information located thereon which will not repeat on any other sponge used in a given surgical procedure, said machine-readable information being readable by a reading device, wherein the physically unconnected surgical sponges can be recognized and accounted for during a surgical procedure without reliance on human visual detection and counting ability to identify. differentiate and account for the surgical sponges.
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An automatic identification system for accounting for and identifying a plurality of surgical sponges used during a surgical procedure. Machine-readable information is located on a plurality of surgical sponges. Each sponge of the plurality of surgical sponges has unique machine-readable information located thereon. The unique machine-readable information is unique for at least one surgical procedure.
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1. An automatic identification system for use with a reading device, said automatic identification system for accounting for and identifying a plurality of surgical sponges used during a surgical procedure, comprising:
machine-readable information located on a plurality of physically unconnected surgical sponges, wherein each sponge of said plurality of surgical sponges has its own differentiating machine-readable information located thereon which will not repeat on any other sponge used in a given surgical procedure, said machine-readable information being readable by a reading device, wherein the physically unconnected surgical sponges can be recognized and accounted for during a surgical procedure without reliance on human visual detection and counting ability to identify. differentiate and account for the surgical sponges. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A surgical sponge system for accounting for and identifying a plurality of surgical sponges used during a surgical procedure, comprising:
a plurality of surgical sponges, each sponge having unique machine readable information located thereon, wherein said unique machine readable information is unique for at least one surgical procedure. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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