Explore the must-have extraction instruments health care professionals should know and consider for surgical excellence. A complete extraction kit should combine strength, precision and control.

Electrical surgical instruments, such as cauterizing instruments, are a common ignition source. Bandages, alcohol and cleaning agents, and (in worst cases) the patients themselves, can be fuel ...

Retained surgical items, commonly referred to as “sponge counts” or “surgical souvenirs,” are surgical instruments, sponges or other objects unintentionally left inside a patient’s body after surgery.

SPRINGFIELD — Baystate Medical Center cleans and prepares more than 5 million surgical instruments a year. It happens in the hospital’s sterile processing labs — a painstaking process that ...