Potential Causes of Retained Items During Surgery

Foreign Bodies Clinical Trial

Official title:

Potential Causes of Retained Items During Surgery

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Enrolling by invitation

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04921826
• Other study ID #: RETAINED ITEM DURING SURGERY
• Status: Enrolling by invitation
• Start date: June 10, 2021
• Est. completion date: September 25, 2022

Study information

• Verified date: August 2021
• Source: Imam Mohammad ibn Saud Islamic University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

to understand and analyze the potential causes of retained items (sponge and instruments) during surgery, which include room preparations, initial count, adding sponges, removing sponges, first closing count, final closing count.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Enrolling by invitation
• Enrollment: 400
• Est. completion date: September 25, 2022
• Est. primary completion date: June 15, 2022
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• operating room staff of hail hospital cluster

Exclusion Criteria:

• none

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Foreign Bodies
• Surgical Sponge, Retained

Intervention

Other:
• online survey
online survey

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Saudi Arabia	Hail Health Cluster	Hail	Other

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Imam Mohammad ibn Saud Islamic University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Saudi Arabia, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	study potential causes of retained item during surgery	to understand participant opinion about the potential causes of retained item which include :room preparation with needed operating room equipment according to the specialty, initial count of sponges and instruments, adding sponges by event recording in a chart, removing sponges by event recording in a chart, first closing count in a chart , final closing count in a chart.	20 days