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Dual syringe technology
Sagent Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a privately-held specialty pharmaceutical company, recently announced the acquisition of Infusive Technologies’ proprietary, patented, multi-chamber, sequential dose syringe technology. Sagent’s innovative, dual-chamber syringe
Safety syringe company report
The annual report of the Australian IV safety company Medigard has just been published. It makes an interesting read as it helps to explain the complexities of
Intravenous fluids infected
A doctor from a team investigating the weekend deaths of 13 newborns at a hospital in western Turkey said Monday that the deaths were a result
Central line bloodstream infection
Ranasinghe et al (2008) describe that healthcare worker education and training are essential to create standardization of aseptic care. They also state that continuous surveillance is
Novel therapeutic drug monitoring
Cranfield University and Sphere Medical Holding PLC are to receive an investment of £322,000 from the Technology Strategy Board to develop a novel drug sensor which
Intravenous device MRSA reduced
The latest quarterly figures on MRSA bloodstream infections, published by the Health Protection Agency today, show that the number of MRSA infections has fallen by 57%
Hepatitis C closes dialysis centre
A New York dialysis center was shut down by the state Health Department and hundreds of patients were urged to be tested after at least one patient
Home parenteral nutrition
The Australasian Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (AuSPEN) have published evidence based guidelines for home parenteral nutrition (HPN). Gillanders, L., Angstmann, K., Ball, P., Chapman-Kiddell, C.,
Reducing drug errors
Staff at Little Company of Mary Hospital in Torrance have installed a new computer system they hope makes human error less likely. The $2.5 million system
Transporting blood samples
Technology developed for war has been turned to the saving of lives. Engineers have converted uncrewed military aircraft into robotic carrier pigeons that could ferry medical
Sven-Ivar Seldinger (1921-1998)
The Seldinger name is immortalized throughout healthcare due to his identification of the catheterization technique known around the world as the Seldinger technique. But who was Seldinger? Sven-Ivar
INS webinar
With new federal regulations limiting reimbursements for hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) looming on the horizon, B. Braun Medical Inc., the Infusion Nurses Society (INS), and the Massachusetts