| 摘要 |
<p>Articles of equipment such as swabs and surgical instruments are provided with a machine readable information source such as a bar code, and are monitored during surgery by means of a system which comprises a bar code scanner (19) and a computer (3) on which information read by the scanner can be stored. The system may include scales (9) for weighing the equipment so that body fluid absorbed by absorbent articles such as swabs can be determined.</p> |
