Potential Causes of Retained Items During Surgery

• Conditions: Surgical Sponge, Retained; Foreign Bodies

• Registration Number: NCT04921826
• Lead Sponsor: Imam Mohammad ibn Saud Islamic University

Brief Summary

to understand and analyze the potential causes of retained items (sponge and instruments) during surgery, which include room preparations, initial count, adding sponges, removing sponges, first closing count, final closing count.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2021-06-01
• Study First Submitted QC: 2021-06-06
• Study Start: 2021-06-10
• Study First Posted: 2021-06-10
• Status Verified: 2021-08
• Last Update Submitted: 2021-08-30
• Last Update Posted: 2021-09-02
• Primary Completion: 2022-06-15
• Study Completion: 2022-09-25

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 400

Inclusion Criteria

• operating room staff of hail hospital cluster

Exclusion Criteria

• none

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
study potential causes of retained item during surgery	20 days	to understand participant opinion about the potential causes of retained item which include :room preparation with needed operating room equipment according to the specialty, initial count of sponges and instruments, adding sponges by event recording in a chart, removing sponges by event recording in a chart, first closing count in a chart , final closing count in a chart.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Hail Health Cluster; 🇸🇦 Hail, Other, Saudi Arabia