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AORN guidelines on unintended retention of a foreign body focuses on counting and communication

 Patients continue to be stitched closed with surgical sponges, gloves, needles, electrodes, scalpels, wires, tweezers, forceps, scopes, masks, tubes, and scissors left inside them. To combat the problem, the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) released updates to its Guideline for Prevention of Retained Surgical Items back in 2016.

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