News and Notes

First Application of High-Precision Stapler in Minimally Invasive Weight Loss Surgery

Major advances pioneered on the Philips Azurion image-guided therapy platform now brought to mobile C-arm systems

Halyard, now part of the Owens & Minor family and a leading global provider of solutions for the prevention of healthcare-associated infections, was awarded a new, three-year contract for facial protection with Vizient, Inc., a member-driven health care performance improvement company.

Adding pulsed xenon UV disinfection to the hospital’s disinfection efforts resulted in a 47% reduction in C.diff infection rates on the intervention units that has been sustained for two years.

Mobius Imaging provides an Application Platform Interface (API) that allows the Airo CT to be interfaced with virtually any navigation system, providing up-to-date image sets at any point during the surgical procedure.

The Joint Commission today debuted its new Speak Up™ To Prevent Infection campaign—featuring free, downloadable educational materials in English and Spanish for the public and for health care providers to support patient involvement in their care.