SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECORDING EVENTS THAT OCCUR DURING A MEDIAL PROCEDURE, INCLUDING EVENTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE INVENTORYING OF ARTICLES USED DURING THE PROCEDURE

摘要

A system (30) for maintaining an inventory of articles used during a medical or surgical procedure. In the event an article for which the status needs to be reconciled and that is left in a patient, the system generates a record (122) that the article is in a partially reconciled state. When a subsequent procedure is performed on the patient the scanner (40) employed during the procedure has the records of the partially reconciled articles associated with the patient