Surgical instrument tracking tech gets FDA clearance

Jeff Byers | | Health Exec | Precision Medicine
The FDA has cleared Haldor Advanced Technologies’ ORLocate, a radio-frequency identification (RFID) system that accounts for items used during surgery to reduce incidence of surgical items left inside patients.

ORLocate tags each item used in surgery with a unique RFID identity. The tagged instruments and sponges are detected via antennas located throughout the sterile field and a software application that continuously and automatically performs the counting, the Hod Hashron, Israel-based company stated.

Along with the operating room system, ORLocate offers a platform for use in the sterile processing and distribution departments that provides tracking technology for the lifecycle of surgical instruments by enabling the packing of surgery sets in the sterile processing department, according to Haldor.

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