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| | Operating Room Nursing: Nurses Are Responsible For Correct Sponge Counts, Court Says (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23) |
 | | The New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, ruled that the surgeon was not negligent and should be dismissed from the case. |
 | | The operating-room nurses, and not the surgeon, according to the court, have the legal responsibility to insure that no foreign object is left inside a patients body, by keeping correct counts of sponges, needles and surgical instruments. |
 | | However, even where the surgeon is considered liable by the courts as "captain of the ship," nursing and other surgical personnel are still legally accountable for their own actions. |
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