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Originally Posted by Brush Okie
Looks like a great idea. A Couple of questions/comments. First the only real treatment for a GSW is surgery to repair the bleeding and damage, everything else is trying to buy time to get there. Second during surgery they will have to get ALL of those little sponges out. While in surgery they count in and out everything. With those it may be hard to tell how many and leaving one in is a big no no. Can they pick them up on the x-ray machine? I would like to hear from our resident MD's on this one.
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The article states that each sponge has a radio-opaque "x" so they are readily apparent on plain films - should be an easy check to make sure everything's out that wasn't put in during surgery.
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To ensure that no sponges would be left inside the body accidentally, they added X-shaped markers that make each sponge visible on an x-ray image.
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