Patent ID: 11894115
Assignee: STRYKER CORPORATION
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  A  Y | IPC A  G

Claim 16:
17. A sponge reconciliation system for maintaining records of sponges used during a procedure to ensure proper removal of surgical sponges following the procedure, the sponge reconciliation system including:
a server;
a plurality of tablets, each of the plurality of tablets including a processor, a memory, and a transceiver, and wherein each processor is configured to:
generate a first article record identifying a first sponge scanned into a current procedure, wherein the first article record corresponds to a sponge that is to be considered partially reconciled;
generate a first procedure event record that identifies a current procedure, and a patient with whom the current procedure is to be identified;
store data from the first article record on the scanner memory, wherein the scanner memory does not contain data that specifically identifies the patient with which the procedure event record and article event record is associated with;
transmit data from the first procedure event record and the first article record to the server;
download data for a second article record for a second sponge that has been partially reconciled to the memory from the server, the downloaded data being from a prior procedure associated with the patient with which the tablet is currently associated for the current procedure;

and wherein the system is configured to:
display text associated with a sponge that has not yet been scanned out in a first color; and
display text associated with a sponge that has been partially reconciled in a second color.