| Subject: | FDA Announces Marketing Clearance for External Surgical Marker Device |
| Category: | Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
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| Published: | Tue, 30 Nov 2004 - 10:00 am |
| The FDA announced approval of marketing clearance for an external surgical marker device that should help reduce the possibility of wrong-site, wrong-procedure and wrong-patient surgery incidents. The device is called the SurgiChip Tag Surgical Marker system, manufactured by SurgiChip Inc. The SurgiChip device uses radio frequency identification (RFID) technology to mark an anatomical site for surgery as a surgical marker. The SurgiChip is a computer chip (transponder) that is affixed to the... The full article is available to StayAlert subscribers. Click here for a free trial subscription. |
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