Health: RFID makes surgery safer.

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

Authors

Dr Oli Mival o.mival@napier.ac.uk
Principal Research Fellow

Prof Christoph Thuemmler C.Thuemmler@napier.ac.uk
Professor

Armin Schneider

Alois Paulin

Michael Kranzfelder

Ahmed Hasan

Contributors

Phillipe Cousin
Editor

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