Trauma: when there's no time to count.

Darlene B Murdock

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Trauma: when there's no time to count.

March 5, 2008

Murdock DB. AORN J. 2008;87(2).

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This article discusses the characteristics of trauma care that challenge completion of surgical sponge counts and provides recommendations to prevent this type of error.

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