hospital use Articles
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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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Mapping the terrain of hospital work: technological constraints on work design and redesign
Cross-occupational task structures in hospitals were used to study the organisation of hospital work. The notion of a terrain or topography of work was introduced to understand task level technologies and to capture boundaries and areas for negotiation among occupational groups. Implications for the reorganisation of hospital work were considered, especially in light of changing work structures ...
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Project - Porous Flexible Paving Used at Mercy for Grass Pave Fire Lane
Porous Flexible Paving for Grass Pave Fire Lane and Overflow Parking at Mercy Hospital Rehab Center using AirPave by AirField ...
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A successful feeding tube placement in Covid-19 patient utilizing the ENvue system - Case study
A 45 year old man suffering from high fever and shortness of breath was admitted to a covid-19 isolation floor at a US hospital employing our enteral navigation system. The patient was not mechanically ventilated but rather placed on a BiPAP machine. In six minutes the feeding tube was placed safely into his small bowel allowing for effective and early ...
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Operating Room - UVC lights provide infection control, green benefits
Muskogee Community Hospital (Muskogee, OK) is using germicidal UVC (ultraviolet C) Emitters™ from Steril-Aire as part of an innovative infection control measure. The devices were installed in the air handling units and in custom-designed, ceilingmounted units in the surgical and procedural suites, marking the first time a hospital has used UVC technology in this way. Steril-Aire devices ...
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Cercare Perfusion Reveals Microvascular Changes in COVID-19 - Case Study
Introduction Neurologic complications are frequently reported in COVID-19, but our understanding of their pathophysiologic causes and neuroanatomical correlates is limited. While several structural brain imaging findings have been reported in COVID-19, including non-spherical signal abnormalities on Susceptibility-Weighted Imaging (SWI), conventional perfusion imaging has not provided consistent ...
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Universal Diagnostics Initiates Observational Study in the US to Evaluate Cell Free DNA Blood Test for Adenomas and Colorectal Cancer
SEVILLE, Spain--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Universal Diagnostics (UDX), an in-vitro diagnostics company developing minimally-invasive, blood-based solutions for detecting cancer early, announced today that it has started a prospective, multi-center observational study in the US for its investigational advanced adenoma (precursor lesions) and colorectal cancer (CRC) detection blood test. UDX is performing ...
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Features of machines used for hospital infection control
Hospital infection control requires recourse to a good quality equipment that not only removes dirt but also eliminates molds, bedbugs, allergens, and germs. Healthcare services are grappling the problem of maintaining sanitization on a daily basis, and one of the most useful tools in this regard is a dry vapor system. A dry vapor system built for hospital infection control should have the ...
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Results support feasibility of entirely extracardiac, minimally invasive, temporary pacing system
New results support the feasibility of an entirely extracardiac pacing method in a heterogeneous patient population, using a minimally invasive, parasternal delivery approach, with adequate sensing and thresholds suited for temporary pacing. The study, authored by Anne-Floor BE Quast, Niek EG Beurskens (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) and colleagues, was recently published in ...
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Ranking Prescribed Pharmaceuticals in Terms of Environmental Risk: Inclusion of Hospital Data and the Importance of Regular Review
A newly available dataset on pharmaceuticals used in Scottish hospitals enabled an Environmental Risk Assessment that includes hospital consumption of pharmaceuticals, as previous UK rankings have been based on community prescription only. As health and the environment are devolved issues for the Scottish government, it is in any case merited to consider a Scottish ranking separately; regional ...
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Field Orthopaedics gets FDA approval for world’s smallest orthopaedic screw
The Brisbane-based designer of the world’s smallest orthopaedic screw has invoiced US hospital suppliers $900,000 in the three weeks since the device gained Food & Drug Administration approval, and he hopes it can soon be made in Brisbane too. Field Orthopaedics, founded in 2016 by former Army doctor Chris Jeffery alongside a team of doctors and engineers including hand surgeon Greg ...
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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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Koch Disruptive Technologies Invests in Sight Diagnostics Alongside OurCrowd in $71 Million Series D
Koch Disruptive Technologies has announced an investment in Sight Diagnostics alongside global crowdfunding platform OurCrowd. Sight Diagnostics is a long time portfolio company of OurCrowd. The Series D funding raised a solid $71 million. Total funding now tops $124 million. A valuation of the Medtech firm was not provided. Sight is a company that has developed the first FDA-cleared fingerstick ...
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Huron Perth Healthcare Alliance – Stratford Hospital, Stratford, Ontario, CANADA
A FLU-ACE waste heat recovery solution at the Stratford General Hospital site of the Huron Perth Healthcare Alliance was supplied to Johnson Controls, Inc. by Thermal Energy as part of its major energy reduction project at the Alliance’s four hospitals. The 10-metre tall FLU-ACE system which sits mostly inside the hospital’s boiler room facility and captures the waste heat and flue gases from ...
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Technological innovations in hospitals: what kind of competitive advantage does adoption lead to?
The authors propose an analytical framework for innovations, based on the resource-advantage theory of competition. Categorisation of innovations depends on how they contribute to a firm's competitive advantage. Essentially, do innovations reduce costs to the organisation, or do they increase the value of its market offerings? They apply this framework to an important segment of the US economy: ...
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A comparative study of prescribing and transcribing between the women hospital pharmacy and the ASHP: a benchmark approach
The aim of this case study is to compare the performance of the Pharmacy Department in the Women Hospital of the Hamad Hospital Corporation (HMC) of Qatar, with that of the American Society of Health System Pharmacists (ASHP) national survey in terms of prescribing and transcribing of drugs that was conducted in 2001. The methods used in this case study include observation, secondary data ...
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Surgical management of an infected external iliac artery interposition graft with a bioengineered human acellular vessel
ABSTRACT Infection of prosthetic vascular grafts can manifest as pain, pseudoaneurysms, or arterial insufficiency in the leg. We present the case of a female patient with a medical history of a right external iliac artery endofibrosis, with a persistently infected synthetic iliofemoral bypass graft, which we replaced with a bioengineered human acellular vessel. At the 12-month follow-up visit, ...
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Busy Texas Hospital Trauma Center Now Using Arbutus Medical Skeletal Traction Procedure Kit
University Hospital in San Antonio, Texas is now using the all-in-one kit from Arbutus Medical for all skeletal traction procedures that come into their emergency room, saving the hospital time, money, and making this orthopedic procedure faster and less painful for patients. The hospital’s emergency department (ED) usually performs 3-5 skeletal traction procedures each week. “The ...
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Shoe Sanitizing Stations for Hospitals
During an early 2020 study in Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers swabbed multiple surfaces at a healthcare facility to study aerosol and surface distribution. Around 50% of the samples from healthcare workers’ footwear contained genetic material from the SARS-CoV-2 virus. In addition, as medical staff walk around the ward, the virus can be tracked all over the ...
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High precision single use temperature recorder for pharmaceuticals
Many drugs are temperature sensitive, and higher or lower temperatures will affect their quality and safety. The storage and transportation of medicines require cold chain management and temperature monitoring. The high-precision single use temperature recorder is very suitable for use in the pharmaceutical cold chain. It has low cost, small space occupation, high accuracy, and meets ...
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