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Michelle Daniels, Encompass Director of Marketing for The Pillow Factory, has a mission. Her mission is to fight Hospital Acquired Infections (HAIs) starting with improving pillow management and increasing awareness. The company published a Pillow Management Program...

Getinge Group has appointed Jens Viebke as the new President of the Acute Care Therapies Business Category Unit. Viebke will be a member of the Getinge Group Executive Team and succeeds Heinz Jacqui who will step down from his current position after four years with...

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...

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...

by Rosie D. Lyles, MD, MHA, MSc; Head of Clinical Affairs, Clorox Healthcare The Burden of Surgical Site Infection In today’s dynamic healthcare environment, preventing surgical site infections (SSIs) is one of the greatest challenges. SSIs continue to rank as one of...

Olympus recently unveiled the Visera 4K UHD System, its big screen surgical system, at the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) 2016 annual meeting in Boston. The Visera 4K UHD System delivers four times the resolution of HD with better...