In a typical surgery today, a large number of objects like scalpels, tweezers, tongs and other implements, gauze pieces, towels, etc are used. The number of implements and objects used increases, for complicated or larger duration surgeries, which have more than one surgeon and assisting staff.

1. There is no room for human error. Implementing the system means that the patient can be confident that nothing will be left inside his body after the surgery.
   
    
2. The doctors and paramedical staff have one thing less to worry about. The smart shelf take care of it.

The RFID solution would be to tag all such objects with RFID tags. They would be of different types, as the tags used for steel objects like scalpels and tweezers, would be different than for towels. However, the bottomline is, that all of these objects can be tagged. A “smart” surgical holder, is similar to a trolley having a lot of open shelves having multiple trays holds all of these objects.

The system will get adopted at the large hospitals soon. It may also be forced on to the hospitals by the government or the Medical Insurance companies, who realize the advantages of having such a system in place.