News and Notes

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) that has the potential to decontaminate approximately 4 million N95 or N95-equivalent respirators per day in the U.S. for reuse by health care workers in hospital settings. “Our...

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf announced that the Department of Health signed a contract this week with ECRI, an independent nonprofit organization improving the safety, quality, and cost-effectiveness of care across all healthcare settings worldwide, to provide...

Royal Philips has announced that the U.S. Government and Philips agreed to team up to increase the production of hospital ventilators in its manufacturing sites in the U.S. Philips plans to double the production by May 2020 and achieve a four-fold increase by the...

Getinge has launched the DPTE Transfer Trolley – a smart, mobile transfer platform for use with all standard DPTE Beta solutions for moving materials into and out of a confined zone without breaking containment or sterility. Its ergonomic, power-assisted design...

With the consistently rising numbers of COVID-19, many healthcare systems are becoming quickly overwhelmed in their Emergency Departments, Med-Surge Units and ICU Units. With state and local officials around the country expressing frustration that some hospitals are...