Figure 1.

Operative Armour is a wearable arm cuff allowing the surgeon to reload and protect needles, reducing the number of handoffs between the surgeon and scrub technician. (A) The surgeon wears the arm cuff (blue), upon which the Operative Armour sharps container storage (orange) and any suture pack (white) can be placed using adhesives and Velcro. Here, the surgeon is sliding the needle into the storage container. (B) Following exchange of the needle pack, the scrub technician performs the needle count of the needles protected in the sharps storage container.