Potential Causes of Retained Items During Surgery

Status

UNKNOWN

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT04921826

Enrollment

400

Registered

2021-06-10

Start date

2021-06-10

Completion date

2022-09-25

Last updated

2021-09-02

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Foreign Bodies, Surgical Sponge, Retained

Brief summary

to understand and analyze the potential causes of retained items (sponge and instruments) during surgery, which include room preparations, initial count, adding sponges, removing sponges, first closing count, final closing count.

Interventions

OTHERonline survey

online survey

Study design

Observational model

OTHER

Time perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• operating room staff of hail hospital cluster

Exclusion criteria

• none

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
study potential causes of retained item during surgery	20 days	to understand participant opinion about the potential causes of retained item which include :room preparation with needed operating room equipment according to the specialty, initial count of sponges and instruments, adding sponges by event recording in a chart, removing sponges by event recording in a chart, first closing count in a chart , final closing count in a chart.

Countries

Saudi Arabia

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026