Stryker Corp. has announced that more than 180 million SurgiCount Safety Sponges have been used in an estimated 10 million surgeries around the United States in the past five years. “The successful implementation of SurgiCount at nearly 500 hospitals nationwide...
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Halyard Health Introduces Dual-Purpose Glove
by OR Today Magazine | Jul 1, 2016
Halyard Health, formerly Kimberly-Clark Health Care, has announced the launch of a new exam glove for EMS professionals and law enforcement personnel. The Black-Fire Powder-Free Nitrile Exam Glove with Quick Check breach detection technology is a dual-purpose glove...
READ MOREThe What, Why and How of Peer Review
by OR Today Magazine | Jul 1, 2016
Kathy Williams Beydler Peer review is a way of implementing organization-wide self-assessment by the people most qualified to assess it: similarly licensed health care professionals. Your organization and your patients will benefit from an effective, ongoing process...
READ MOREHow Much Exercise is Best
by OR Today Magazine | Jun 21, 2016
Exercise & Heart Health: What America Doesn’t Know by Cleveland Clinic News Service Exercise is one of the keys to preventing heart disease, the No. 1 killer of both men and women in the United States, but yet, a Cleveland Clinic survey shows only 20 percent of...
READ MOREThe Acrylamide-Cancer Link
by OR Today Magazine | Jun 1, 2016
Humans have been eating acrylamide, a chemical that forms in some foods when they are exposed to high heat, for as long as we have been cooking, but it wasn’t until 2002 that its presence in foods was discovered. The Maillard reaction, a naturally occurring reaction...
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