February 21, 2008 – McKesson has formed a strategic relationship with Proventys Inc., a personalized medicine service provider, in which McKesson will incorporate Proventys' risk prediction capabilities into its core clinical decision support solutions, as part of McKesson’s overall strategy to offer personalized clinical decision making.

February 21, 2008 - High schools and middle schools in Long Branch, NJ, are using a computer-assisted medical device called Cardioscan that analyzes cardiac sounds to evaluate student athletes during preparticipation sports physicals, according to Zargis Medical Corp., a spin-off from Siemens Corporate Research and a majority-owned subsidiary of Speedus Corp. When murmurs are detected by Cardioscan, they are graphically displayed according to their intensity, timing and location.

February 21, 2008 - Philips opened the doors to its 50th Ambient Experience suite at Fairview Hospital in Cleveland, OH, the catheterization (cath) lab suite installed at Fairview, one of the hospitals in the Cleveland Clinic Health System,designed as an interactive, people-focused healthcare environment that combines design and technology for a more comfortable experience for patients and staff.

ARJO offers a full line of sliding surfaces including bariatric Maxi Slide sheets, for bed boosting and lateral transfers. Maxi Slide products virtually eliminate physical strain on staff when performing in-bed transfer and movement tasks. The sheets are designed to prevent skin irritation, friction and shear since the patient remains on the same surface throughout the transfer, with movement occurring between two layers of the sheets. These sliding sheets reportedly even make applying slings onto very large patients easier.

The BariMaxx II Power Drive System is a 1,000-pound capacity expandable side exit bariatric bed with an integrated power drive system that is designed to help reduce potential risks associated with bariatric patient handling and transport.

Powered technology has become an expectation in the market due to the emerging focus on safe patient handling and caregiver safety. The BariMaxx II bed can help caregivers address the physical challenges of pushing beds by utilizing technology to help do the work for them.

February 2008

Heavy duty, yet lightweight, the Detecto 6856 bariatric scale’s balanced design reportedly makes it easy to move.

Detecto’s 6856 is engineered specifically for weighing obese and unsteady patients and features a 24-inch square, low-profile platform with nonskid surface and sturdy handrails with padded grips. The scale’s capacity is 800 pounds.

Arista AH absorbable hemostasis powder is indicated for most surgeries including cardiac, thoracic, orthopedic, spinal and general applications. It is instantly ready to use, requiring no mixing, no addition of patient blood or other components and no special handling or storage conditions.

Cardinal Health and HemCon Medical Technologies Inc. in December announced the availability of co-labeled chitosan-based hemorrhage control dressings to acute care professionals as part of an exclusive, four-year distribution agreement.

Cardinal Health now offers various sizes of the HemCon Bandage and ChitoFlex dressings to first responders and medical professionals in emergency rooms, trauma care and cardiac catheterization labs.

The SafeSeal Hemostasis Patch topical wound dressing is designed to decrease the time it takes to control bleeding from the puncture made into a blood vessel to perform an endovascular procedure.

In January the FDA granted Ethicon Inc. an expanded indication for EVICEL Fibrin Sealant (Human), which is one of the first fibrin sealants available as an adjunct to hemostasis for use in surgery, when control of bleeding by standard surgical techniques is ineffective or impractical.

EVICEL is an all-human, plasma-derived fibrin. It does not contain aprotinin, which has been associated with adverse health effects. The product is sold as a frozen liquid and requires less than one-minute preparation time after thawing.

February 2008

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