Improve patient outcomes, avoid preventable costs – Operating rooms can be a chaotic environment and surgical staff often need to multi-task in high pressure situations. Clinicians are advocates for patients in their times of greatest need and they deserve support from the best products. Without an adjunct technology to help accurately count and find surgical sponges, the human error inherent in relying solely on a manual count is the reason unintentionally retained surgical sponges are the most common surgical adverse event1,2,3. There are an estimated 4,000 retained sponges each year in the U.S., 11 every day. This preventable Never Event leads to significant patient morbidity and cost ramifications including legal fees and settlements, non-reimbursable care, quality metrics and fines1,2,3.

Be in line with AORN Recommend Practices – In addition to a manual count, the AORN now recommends the use of adjunct technology on every patient, in every procedure to help prevent the unintentional retention of surgical sponges.

Tally’s proprietary RFID solution provides a fast, easy to use and affordable solution to help prevent retained surgical sponges. Tally simplifies and speeds an accurate count and helps more quickly find any missing items.

Fast – Barcodes and some competing RFID solutions require users to scan and count one item at a time. Tally’s proprietary RFID is able to quickly scan numerous sponges simultaneously, greatly speeding up the counting process and requiring significantly less handling.

In addition to faster, easier scanning and counting, Tally’s proprietary “FIND” feature is designed to help users more quickly locate missing sponges. Using a powerful RFID reader and proprietary sensing algorithm, Tally uses a combination of synchronized audio and visual cues to help guide a user to any missing sponges.

Easy – Tally is the only retained sponge prevention solution that uses just one small handheld device to do everything. Competing retained sponge prevention solutions require multiple, large components that need to be purchased, maintained, cleaned and trained on and further require large physical footprints in an already space constrained operating rooms. Tally avoids the clutter, cost and confusion of competitive solutions.

Accurate – With unique RFID data programmed onto every sponge, Tally helps prevent the inaccurate counts that lead to retained sponges when a manual count alone is relied upon.

Affordable – The cost of using Tally compares favorably to manual counting and competitive technologies.

Tally is designed to be used as an adjunct to a manual count, not as a replacement. We combined our deep clinical, development and technology experience, together with extensive input from operating room clinicians, to design Tally to reinforce recommended practices for manual sponge counts.

By improving the ease and speed of accurately counting sponges and providing the ability to more quickly reconcile counts, Tally empowers clinicians to reduce total case time.

If you are interested in learning more detail about the cost and benefits of the Tally system please contact us. Our pricing reflects our intention to establish Tally as the most compelling retained sponge prevention solution from not just a clinical satisfaction perspective but one of value.