healthcare facility Articles
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Beware Hazards in Healthcare: New Management Standards for Hazardous Waste Pharmaceuticals
Recently proposed EPA regulation provides a streamlined approach for healthcare facilities to better manage their hazardous pharmaceutical waste. To prepare for these changes, healthcare facilities, including manufacturers, distributers, pharmacies and retailers of pharmaceutical products in the USA will need to make operational adjustments around notification, training, record keeping and ...
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Fortifying Safety in Healthcare Facilities: Walk-Through Metal Detectors
Fortifying Safety in Healthcare Facilities: Walk-Through Metal Detectors The safety and security of patients, staff, and visitors are paramount in healthcare facilities, and the deployment of walk-through metal detector has emerged as a pivotal strategy in safeguarding these environments. Walk-through metal detectors play a critical role in proactive threat detection, enhancing security ...
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Evaluation of miscellaneous and electronic device energy use in hospitals
Miscellaneous and electronic loads (MELs) consume about one–third of the primary energy used in US buildings, and their energy use is increasing faster than other end–uses. In healthcare facilities, 30% of the annual electricity was used by MELs in 2008. This paper presents methods and challenges for estimating medical MELs energy consumption along with estimates of energy use in a ...
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Glutaraldehyde – Health Hazards in Hospitals and Healthcare Facilities
Glutaraldehyde is very similar to Formaldehyde in its structure and uses in the healthcare industry. Chemically, Glutaraldehyde exists at room temperature as a liquid, whereas Formaldehyde exists under those conditions as a gas, which can easily be dissolved in water. Glutaraldehyde is very similar to formaldehyde in its structure and uses in the healthcare industry. Chemically, glutaraldehyde ...
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MEDI-WASTE – Russian Federation - Case Study
MEDI-WASTE is a Russian company that has supplied 19 healthcare facilities with Newster equipment for treating infectious waste. Vitantonio De Nigris, C.E.O. MEDI-WASTE “I wish to point out that we have installed many units over the years. 11 of these are over 10 years old and still running well, another 11 are over 5 years old and running well and 7 have been running less than 5 years. ...
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TOMI SteraMist Helps Controlling the Spread of C. auris
The CDC has declared C. auris as an urgent Antifungal Resistant (AR) Threat Candida auris, C. auris, is a type of fungus that causes severe infections and is spread very easily, especially through healthcare facilities and equipment. C. auris has been a burden on healthcare systems since it was discovered in 2009 and surfaced in the United States in ...
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Michigan Hospital Leads Healthcare Facility Design - Case Study
CycleSafe had the opportunity to partner with a Michigan hospital that has been paving the way for hospital planning with its state-of-the-art facilities. This award winning hospital has been recognized as a groundbreaking healthcare facility that redefines how we understand what a hospital or clinic could be while enhancing its services to a community. Our partner has been recognized as a ...
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Drug effectiveness reporting and monitoring systems: discussion and prototype development
While tracking systems have been developed to decrease occurrences and consequences of medication errors in healthcare facilities, there is a growing need for similar systems to monitor drugs that have just entered the market with unknown adverse events. Between 1997 and 2005, the FDA's MedWatch system successfully identified 15 drugs with toxic side-effects; it took an average of 5.9 years for ...
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Glutaraldehyde – Health Hazards in Hospitals and Healthcare Facilities
Glutaraldehyde is very similar to formaldehyde in its structure and uses in the healthcare industry. Chemically, glutaraldehyde exists at room temperature as a liquid, whereas formaldehyde exists under those conditions as a gas, which can easily be dissolved in water. Glutaraldehyde is often used as a substitute for formaldehyde because formaldehyde is now a suspect cancer-causing substance. ...
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6 Tips for Avoiding Pressure Ulcers in Healthcare Facilities
A silent but serious condition is impacting healthcare facilities around the world, taking a serious toll not only on patient safety but hospital revenue and operating costs, too. Although it’s not contagious, this condition afflicts 2.5 million patients each year, resulting in 60,000 deaths annually in the United States alone1. On top of that, it costs the U.S. health system an estimated ...
By EarlySense
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Medical Latex Examination Gloves
Medical Latex Examination Gloves protect you and your team from the biohazards and chemicals found in a variety of healthcare facilities and workplaces. Gloves also maintain hygiene and sanitation in the healthcare or food workplace, promoting the safety of patients, workers and visitors.Medical Latex Examination Gloves Features Selected high quality natural latex as raw material, strong and ...
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Glutaraldehyde and Formaldehyde – Health Hazards in Hospitals and Healthcare Facilities
Glutaraldehyde and Formaldehyde Glutaraldehyde is very similar to formaldehyde in its structure and uses in the healthcare industry. Chemically, Glutaraldehyde exists at room temperature as a liquid, whereas formaldehyde exists under those conditions as a gas, which can easily be dissolved in water. Glutaraldehyde is often used as a substitute for formaldehyde because formaldehyde is now a ...
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Enhancing Healthcare Security: The Role of Door Frame Metal Detectors in Hospitals and Clinics
Enhancing Healthcare Security: The Role of Door Frame Metal Detectors in Hospitals and Clinics The safety and security of patients, healthcare professionals, and visitors are paramount in hospitals and clinics. With the evolving landscape of security threats, the implementation of robust security measures is essential to ensure a secure environment conducive to healing and care. Door frame metal ...
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Disinfectant wipes continue to be in short supply
Disinfectant wipes are used to disinfect handheld non-critical patient care items including stethoscopes, ultrasound machines, and other medical equipment. The disinfection of these items is even more critical during a global pandemic. But throughout the past 9+ months, disinfectant wipes (among other items) have been in short supply and considerably more expensive. In August, the cost of ...
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Aerosol suction system: active protection for healthcare operators
Airsafe medical aerosol high-flow suction systemshave been designed in 2020 in response to the need to decrease risk of exposure for healthcare operators. The constant increase of hospital admissions required a further effort to healthcare facilities, for which it is a necessity to put together personal protective equipments (PPE as masks, gloves, visors, scrubs, etc.) already supplied by ...
By Airsafe
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Waterborne microorganisms and biofilms related to hospital infections: strategies for prevention and control in healthcare facilities
Water is the main stimulus for the development of microorganisms, and its flow has an important role in the spreading of contaminants. In hospitals, the water distribution system requires special attention since it can be a source of pathogens, including those in the form of biofilms often correlated with resistance of microorganisms to various treatments. In this paper, information relevant ...
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FDA revises cGMP and labeling regulations of medical gases
Abstract: The US FDA recently amended its cGMP and labeling regulations for medical gases. The chief impetus for modifying the regulation was the number of injuries and deaths where medical gas containers carrying gases other than oxygen were falsely connected to a healthcare’s facility oxygen supply system. FDA in the Federal Register said, “The final rule is intended to increase ...
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APIC National Survey
Before the holiday season, The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) conducted a survey of infection preventionists in the United States. Results showed, similar to APIC’s previous survey conducted in March, that healthcare facilities across America are being forced to reuse masks, respirators and are implementing PPE crisis standards of care due a ...
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Calviri’s Stephen Johnston discusses job opportunities for students
As Phoenix’s bioscience initiative grows, so do job opportunities for students By the end of the year, over $3 billion will have been invested into Phoenix’s bioscience and healthcare facilities, creating more than 8,000 jobs Phoenix City Council voted to fund the Bioscience Healthcare Strategic Initiative for the 2021-2022 fiscal year last Tuesday, a plan set to help create new job ...
By Calviri
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Targeting 100! Envisioning the high performance hospital in six climate regions
Cost control, maintaining quality healing and working environments, and more sustainable, energy efficient operations are important topics in healthcare today. This team has developed research directed at much higher performing hospitals - targeting both energy performance and interior environmental quality, for little capital investment in six of the most populous and diverse climate regions in ...
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