An Israeli hospital has developed an app for iPads that provides staff, patients, and family members with real-time tracking of progress in catheterization and angioplasty procedures. The Invasive ...
Longstanding practice patterns are hard to change, but in a project led by Michigan hospital researchers, 71 organizations reduced their overall percentage of inappropriate urinary catheter use from ...
Automated modules can be linked together in different ways to handle a variety of coating applications. Harland Medical Systems uses EFD's precision spray valves to apply a UV-curable coating to ...
Subscribe to BizTimes Daily – Local news about the people, companies and issues that impact business in Milwaukee and Southeast Wisconsin. In March, new technology at the Wisconsin Heart Hospital in ...
The World Health Organization has predicted that by 2020 major depression will be second only to heart disease as a contributor to the global burden of disease. Depression is common, is associated ...
Time is muscle, the team at Memorial Hermann’s Heart and Vascular Institute in Memorial City says. They should know, since the institute’s artery catheterization process has set the benchmark for ...
Doctors are now able to image the heart and coronary arteries with a CT scan, avoiding in some cases the need for an invasive test that involves snaking a catheter through the arteries themselves.
MUNDELEIN, IL--(Marketwired - October 24, 2013) - According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), urinary tract infections (UTI) are the most common hospital-acquired infection, and ...
The same simulation methodology used in the aviation industry was able to uncover latent environmental threats to patient safety. This in situ simulation took place at a large Midwestern hospital in ...
An increase in the number of catheter days for each patient is associated with an increase in the number of CAUTIs, or catheter-associated urinary tract infections, as well as other complications.