1. Number
of
Procedures 620
Number
of
incidents 30
Percentage
of
incidents
that
occurred 5%
Department Sponge
Count Instrument
Count
General
Surgery 1 2
Cardiac 0 0
Orthopedics 0 2
ENT 1 0
Neurological 3 1
Total: 5 5
Average
number
of
incidents
6
Incidents
in
General
Surgery
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
Neurological
ENT
Orthopedics
Cardiac
General
Surgery
#12
What
services
had
the
most
incidents?
#13
Which
services
has
the
least
incidents?
#14
What
type
of
incidents
was
most
common?
General
Surgery
and
Orthopedics
had
the
most
with
10
incidents.
Cardiac
had
the
least
amount
of
incidents
with
1
followed
by
ENT
with
2.

2. Sponge
Counts
and
Instrument
Counts
were
the
most
common
with
five
incidents
each.
Carolyn
Paduano,
RN,
BSN
NU
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3. Needle
Count Suture X-­‐Ray
Taken Re-­‐explored Items
Missing
2 1 1 0 0
1 0 0 0 0
1 0 2 0 0
0 0 0 0 1
0 0 1 0 2
4 1 4 0 3
General
Surgery
Sponge
Count
Instrument
Count
Needle
Count
Suture
X-­‐Ray
Taken
Re-­‐explored
Items
Missing
Pressure
Areas
Equipment
Follow-­‐up

4. incidents
each.

5. Pressure
Areas Equipment Followup Other
Total
number
of
incidents
1 0 0 2 10
0 0 0 0 1
1 0 4 0 10
0 0 0 0 2
0 0 0 0 7
2 0 4 2 30