Countable items include;

– Tapes: Umbilical, vessel loops

– abdominal packs

– Swabs/ sponges with X-ray detectable thread (all types including lahey, laps, peanuts, wool balls, patties e.t.c.)

– screws

– Wing nuts

– Small removable attachments

– Sharps: needles (atraumatic, free or hyoodermic), sutures, blades (scalpel, beaver and saw), bovie tips, drill bits e.t.c

– Instruments

– Others: cannula, laparoscopic specimen bags, stapling device ‘donuts’, sutyre reels, shod, electrosurgical scratch pad, trocar sealing cap, e.t.c.

NB: Omitted counts because of an extreme patient emergency, or count abortion should be recorded, according to institutional policy and procedure.

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