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	PURPOSE: To provide guidelines of accountability for sponges, sharps and instruments used during a surgical procedure. To provide safe practice for the surgical patient, prevent patient injury and adhere to legal standards. POLICY: All counts shall be audibly and visually performed by the Circulating RN and scrub person according to procedure. Incorrectly numbered packages of sponges and sharps shall be isolated and not used during the procedure. The Circulating RN and scrub person shall document and sign the operative record with the results of the counts. The count form shall list the...
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	...limited to, suture needles, scalpel blades, hypodermic needles and cautery blades. Other items may include vessel lopes, hernia tapes, etc. All counts shall be taken and recorded before the procedure, when additional sponges/sharps/instruments are added to the sterile field, prior to closure of a cavity within a cavity, prior to wound closure, at skin closure or at the end of the surgical procedure and when permanent relief of the scrub person and/or Circulating RN occurs. Suture needles...