Laparoscopic Procedures That Emergently Convert to Open Procedures Place the Patient

Laparoscopic procedures that emergently convert to open procedures place the patient at risk for unintentional retained surgical items (RSIs) .What new and evolving risk reduction strategy could prevent RSIs and frustrating,time-consuming miscount adventures at the end of these procedures?

A) Creating precounted laparotomy sets with only the few necessary instruments
B) Performing radiologic surveillance on all conversion procedures at closure
C) Counting all instruments including a laparotomy set before the laparoscopy
D) Replacing or tagging sponges and laparotomy instruments with radiofrequency identification (RFID) chips

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