Health: RFID makes surgery safer.

Research Output

This document presents a novel technique to reduce the risk of forgotten surgical towels in surgery. It is an application of IoT in field of healthcare. Integrating RFID tags into towels and developing an application to read this information allow nurses and surgeons to track the surgical towels and ensure that there are no retained foreign bodies in the abdominal cavity before end- ing the operation.

Type:

Book Chapter
Date:

01 January 2014
Publication Status:

Published
Publisher

Internet of Things Council
Library of Congress:

QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Dewey Decimal Classification:

005.4 Systems programming and programs

http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/output/179666 <p>Mival, O., Thuemmler, C., Schneider, A., Paulin, A., Kranzfelder, M., & Hasan, A. (2013). Health: RFID makes surgery safer. In P. Cousin (Ed.), <i>Internet of Things: Success Stories</i>, 54-60. Internet of Things Council</p>

Citation

Mival, O., Thuemmler, C., Schneider, A., Paulin, A., Kranzfelder, M., & Hasan, A. (2013). Health: RFID makes surgery safer. In P. Cousin (Ed.), Internet of Things: Success Stories, 54-60. Internet of Things Council