Shimane university hospital implements RFID technology to manage surgical instruments

Author

Sawa, T. ; Komatsu, Hiroyoshi

Author_Institution

KRD Corp., Yamato, Japan

fYear

2013

fDate

6-8 March 2013

Firstpage

90

Lastpage

92

Abstract

Every surgical instrument used during surgery must be accounted to ensure that none of these devices is left inside the patient. This paper presents SIMSAFE (Surgical InstruMents SAFEty system), an automated system for surgical instrument that increases the safety of surgical procedure. Shimane University Hospital installs this system and demonstrates that the system can trace and track every instrument with minimum additional effort to dairy operation. With SIMSAFE system, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology is used to detect and find the location of the individual surgical instrument. In addition to the original purpose of securing the safety of health care, improving the efficiency of work and reduction of responsibility for the work of the worker has been obtained.

Keywords

biomedical communication; hospitals; radiofrequency identification; RFID technology; SIMSAFE; Shimane University Hospital; automated system; health care safety; radio frequency identification technology; surgical instrument detection; surgical instrument management; surgical instruments safety system; Containers; Hospitals; Instruments; Radiofrequency identification; Safety; Surgery; Ceramic IC Tag; Heat resistance; ISO-15693; RFID; SIMSAFE; Sterilization; Surgical Instrument; UDI; Water infection;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Medical Information and Communication Technology (ISMICT), 2013 7th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Tokyo

ISSN

2326-828X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5770-8

Electronic_ISBN

2326-828X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISMICT.2013.6521706

Filename

6521706