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For example, protocols that encourage best practices, like an automated hand hygiene compliance system, have been associated with decreased employee absenteeism in emergency room nurses and technicians. In this blog, we break down some of the basics of employee absenteeism — including causes and prevention — and explain how a hand hygiene system like ...
ByBioVigil
“If we can identify in the emergency room whether or not it’s fluid or not we may be able to save those patients from coming in the hospital and manage them more closely as an outpatient,” Bensimhon said. ...
Current methods to diagnose sepsis take more than 24 hours after a patient enters the emergency ward – by which time, the patient may already be well on their way towards tissue damage, organ failure, and death. ...
Additionally, from 2001 to 2012, the rate of emergency room visits doubled for treating children with concussions. With the pro2cool system receiving designation from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a breakthrough device, TecTraum is strongly positioned for revolutionizing the treatment of concussions and providing an essential medical device for young ...
"Testing is going to be a routine practice for many as we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic and look to prepare for possible new variants to come, while also addressing current variants. ...
“LightDeck is revolutionizing testing at the point of care – whether it’s in a clinic or emergency room, or even a retail pharmacy. This year we aim to launch our first ultra-rapid COVID-19 test products, followed by additional in-vitro diagnostic panels, including inflammation, triage, and hormone tests; as we begin to realize our vision of ...
“It’s been extremely rewarding to see the excitement of the clinicians as they make decisions based on our technology, and also to see how it can be deployed in various clinical settings, such as the ICU, emergency room and operating room,” said Eibl. “We’ve had such a positive experience with Fogarty Innovation ...
Until now, patients needing routine or emergent care required transportation by medical charter flight hundreds of miles away to either Timmins or Kingston, ON. ...
BrainScope One is also being used in a cross-section of market segments including: urgent care and occupational health clinics; concussion clinics; hospital emergency rooms; university sports and student health centers; professional sports; and pharmaceutical clinical trials. ...
“We believe the LightDeck analyzer capabilities to measure a panel of inflammation markers in minutes should allow improved patient care promptly upon arrival to the emergency room or clinic.” The LightDeck Analyzer leverages planar waveguide technology, which can enable quantitative, highly sensitive and specific tests for dozens of biomarkers on a ...
By incorporating Aidoc’s AI platform, which includes seven FDA-cleared solutions for triage and notification of patients with acute medical conditions, Novant Health is taking proactive steps to improve patient outcomes and reduce emergency department (ED) length of stay amid resource constraints inflicted by the Omicron variant. ...
ByAidoc
Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) cleared portable magnetic resonance imaging (“MRI”)TM device, Swoop®, is proud to announce that M Health Fairview is deploying a Swoop system in the emergency room (ER), intensive care unit (ICU) and post anesthesia environments at M Health Fairview University of Minnesota Medical Center. ...
The new service helps RCSM pulmonologists detect changes in clinical condition and intervene before a patient’s condition worsens to potentially avoid an emergency room or hospital visit. “At RCSM it is our mission to be the leader in respiratory and sleep medicine, with best-in-class care delivered with a compassionate, patient-first approach. ...
Designed as a complementary system to conventional MRIs at a fraction of the cost, Swoop captures images in minutes, providing critical decision-making capabilities in emergency departments (ED), operating rooms (OR) and intensive care units (ICU), among others. ...
“With ViraBac EZ and all of our tests, we are integrating diverse patient cohorts in product development to ensure that our tests will perform in real-world practice across multiple clinical settings, from doctor’s offices and outpatient clinics to the emergency room. This approach is important because the patient response to infection can vary. ...
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) in the near future. The initial EUA submission will claim effectiveness for administration by a licensed medical professional in a point-of-care setting, including physician offices, hospital emergency rooms, urgent care clinics, mobile testing sites, colleges and ...
Traggis started working with LightDeck Diagnostics founder Chris Myatt at a previous endeavor, Precision Photonics, a Boulder-based manufacturer of laser optics, in the early 2000s. Originally named MBio Diagnostics, LightDeck began as a “skunkworks effort” inside Precision. “I ended up taking over the reins there at Precision Photonics around the time Chris started focusing ...
The study showed high rates of costly healthcare utilization, including emergency and inpatient visits, and confirmed that healthcare costs continued to be substantial, exceeding $200,000, in the first year following dialysis initiation. ...
The project’s overarching objective is to achieve a market-ready, clinically proven and FDA-cleared Accuro XV product for rapid, radiation-free fracture detection and aid triage in emergency medicine; a critical medical countermeasure to ensure timely triage for reduction of morbidity and mortality in mass-casualty blast trauma incidents, for which, no field-deployable ...
The 68.6% of the escalations that were found to require intervention were further broken down by intervention: 33.0% were changes in steroids and/or antibiotics 20.2% inhaled respiratory medication 15.4% both (changes in steroids/antibiotics and inhaled respiratory medication) 31.4% no pharmacological intervention “Early identification and management of exacerbations in chronic ...