Health: RFID makes surgery safer.

Mival, Oli; Thuemmler, Christoph; Schneider, Armin; Paulin, Alois; Kranzfelder, Michael; Hasan, Ahmed

Abstract

This document presents a novel technique to reduce the risk of forgotten surgical towels in surgery. It is an application of IoT in field of healthcare. Integrating RFID tags into towels and developing an application to read this information allow nurses and surgeons to track the surgical towels and ensure that there are no retained foreign bodies in the abdominal cavity before end- ing the operation.

Citation

Mival, O., Thuemmler, C., Schneider, A., Paulin, A., Kranzfelder, M., & Hasan, A. (2014). Health: RFID makes surgery safer. In P. Cousin (Ed.), Internet of Things: Success Stories (54-60). Internet of Things Council

• Publication Date: 2014
• Deposit Date: Oct 29, 2014
• Publicly Available Date: May 16, 2017
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 54-60
• Book Title: Internet of Things: Success Stories
• Keywords: RFID: Radio Frequency Identification; ambient intelligence
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/7265
• Publisher URL: http://www.smart-action.eu/fileadmin/smart-action/publications/IoT_Success_Stories_1.pdf
• Contract Date: May 16, 2017