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These are crucial tasks as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that on any given day, about 1 in 31 patients receiving care in a hospital has at least one healthcare-associated infection (HAI). ...
CDC reports that in healthcare settings, Klebsiella infections commonly occur among sick patients who are receiving treatment for other conditions. For example, patients whose care requires devices like ventilators or intravenous catheters, and patients who are taking long courses of certain antibiotics are most at risk. ...
Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) has announced a new medical device product classification “whole room microbial reduction device” which establishes FDA regulation of UV robots intended to reduce the number of pathogens in unoccupied patient rooms, operating rooms and other areas in healthcare ...
These drops in productivity or gaps in care can put patients at risk. To combat employee absenteeism and its effects, hospitals need to understand its causes and be proactive about implementing procedures that address them. ...
ByBioVigil
This new platform is designed to deliver improved operating room productivity, patient safety, and economic value through cost savings, energy efficiency, and reduced setup/breakdown times. The modular system also is designed to be drop-in compatible with patient data consoles, surgical displays and endoscopes found in minimally invasive ...
Any electronic solution used for contact tracing should have data collection techniques that firmly establish where healthcare providers went and how long they stayed with any given patient. Some electronic solutions, for example, will record hand washing if a healthcare provider pushes the sanitizer button, but this information doesn’t denote whether they actually visited ...
ByBioVigil
It is designed to deliver improved operating room productivity, patient safety, and economic value through cost-savings, energy efficiency, and reduced setup/breakdown times. The modular system also is designed to be drop-in compatible with patient data consoles, surgical displays and endoscopes found in minimally invasive operating ...
The ArthroFree™ system is expected to be the first wireless surgical camera system for the minimally invasive operating room approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The system incorporates the company’s proprietary low-heat, high-intensity Meridiem™ light technology along with advanced camera, battery, and wireless transmission technologies. The ...
The Importance of Patient Experience to HCPs HCPs need to honestly assess the patient experience from a patient's first appointment to their final follow-up. Positive patient experience benefits HCPs by: Increasing patient retention rate. ...
Pharmacy and Hospital Automation Solution provider JVM became an Integrator of Codonics Safe Label System to deliver more complete anesthesia medication management solutions to operating rooms in hospitals worldwide. JVM, a subsidiary of Hanmi Pharmaceuticals and leading global provider of pharmacy and hospital automation solutions including ATDPS and INTIPharm, today announced ...
ByCodonics
The ArthroFree system is designed to deliver improved operating room productivity, patient safety, and economic value through cost-savings, energy efficiency, and reduced setup/breakdown times. ...
“Our ArthroFree system provides wireless visualization for endoscopic instruments with a plug-and-play receiver that is compatible with virtually all existing patient data consoles and a handpiece that is compatible with all C-mount scopes. The device replaces complex wired systems that create a safety hazard and encumber the surgeon and staff with long cables crossing ...
In the PHYOX2 pivotal trial, which included patients with PH type 1 (PH1) and PH type 2 (PH2), nedosiran demonstrated a statistically significant reduction from baseline in urinary oxalate (Uox) excretion compared to placebo. Additionally, a significantly higher proportion of patients treated with nedosiran achieved and sustained normal or near-normal Uox at two ...
With BioVigil, members of the staff wear a badge that tracks movement from room to room and provides a gentle reminder sequence to increase hand hygiene compliance. For example, if a patient was diagnosed with COVID, we can look back and see who went to that patient’s room and for how long they were there, ...
ByBioVigil
“With EU funds, the European Commission is buying 200 disinfection robots, which will be delivered to hospitals across Europe to help disinfect patient rooms. We do all we can to support hospitals and patients in these difficult times. ...
“With EU funds, the European Commission is buying 200 disinfection robots, which will be delivered to hospitals across Europe to help disinfect patient rooms. We do all we can to support hospitals and patients in these difficult times. ...
The use of ClearPoint will allow the entire procedure to take place within the MRI suite, instead of moving the patient from the operating room to the MRI, as is the workflow with current commercially available systems,” stated Dr. ...
This week Emergency Clinical Hospital Bagdasar-Arseni in Romania, and six other hospitals in Romania, are set to have one delivered in the coming days, thus benefiting from these autonomous disinfection robots’ ability to disinfect a standard size patient room in as quickly as 10 minutes. In a statement President of the European Commission Ursula Von Der ...
Current treatment methods have the tendency to inadvertently produce straight and fully extended results, suboptimal outcomes for patients who are seeking a return to functionality. Research has shown that when a patient’s DIP joint is fused in a functional position, finger dexterity and grip strength improve over that of a patient with a ...
Many patients treated in hospitals or staying in long-term care facilities have conditions that make them much more susceptible to infections due to microbial pathogens, including mold. ...