Patient Safety Technologies

Patient Safety Technologies develops products and services for the medical patient safety markets in the United States.

Patient Safety Technologies, Inc., through its subsidiary, SurgiCount Medical, Inc., engages in the development, marketing, and sale of products; and the provision of services in the medical patient safety markets in the United States. The company offers Safety-Sponge System, an integrated counting and documentation system that prevents surgical sponges and towels from being unintentionally left in patients after surgical procedures by allowing for accounting of these individual items prior to the patient being closed. The SurgiCount Safety-Sponge System is a patented system of bar-coded surgical sponges, SurgiCounter scanners, and SurgiCount360 software applications. Patient Safety Technologies sells its Safety-Sponge systems to acute care hospitals directly, as well as through its distribution partners. The company was formerly known as Franklin Capital Corporation and changed its name to Patient Safety Technologies, Inc. in April 2005. Patient Safety Technologies, Inc. was founded in 1959 and is headquartered in Irvine, California.