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SmartSponge system, an RFID system to aid doctors in tracking sponges and other surgical items during surgery. There are many different types of tools that have been left behind during a surgery. Common instruments are needles, knife blades, safety pins, scalpels, clamps, scissors, sponges, towels, and electrosurgical adapters.
Mini-laparotomy revealed gossypiboma (grasped by the clamp). Surgical specimen (gossypiboma). Gossypiboma, textiloma or more broadly Retained Foreign Object (RFO) is the technical term for surgical complications resulting from foreign materials, such as a surgical sponge, accidentally left inside a patient's body.
Following the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, it was discovered in 2016 that between 0.6% and 2.5% of sand on local beaches was fused glass spheres formed during the bombing. Like trinitite, the glass contains material from the local environment, including materials from buildings destroyed in the attack. The material has been called hiroshimaite ...
Coal waste in Pennsylvania. Coal refuse (also described as coal waste, rock, slag, coal tailings, waste material, rock bank, culm, boney, or gob [1]) is the material left over from coal mining, usually as tailings piles or spoil tips.
Bagasse (/ b ə ˈ ɡ æ s / bə-GAS) is the dry pulpy fibrous material that remains after crushing sugarcane or sorghum stalks to extract their juice. [1] It is used as a biofuel for the production of heat, energy, and electricity, and in the manufacture of pulp and building materials.
The active ingredient is melamine (a nitrogen-rich organic base) that acts as a mild abrasive, lifting the staining material. As it does, some of the sponge dissolves with it, exposing the next ...
A message etched into an ancient sphinx has proven to be, well, sphinx-like. The “mysterious” inscription has long been an enigma, puzzling scholars for over a century.
The Semipalatinsk Test Site or Semipalatinsk-21 (Russian: Семипалатинск-21; Kazakh: Семей-21, romanized: Semei-21), also known as "The Polygon", was the primary testing venue for the Soviet Union's nuclear weapons.