News and Notes

Sealed Air’s Diversey Care division has launched a test drive program for TASKI IntelliTrail, a full-service, intelligent fleet management system that allows facility managers to remotely monitor their TASKI floor care machines with ease. IntelliTrail is part of...

Nihon Kohden has commercially launched its new Neuromaster MEE-2000A, a highly individualized intraoperative monitoring system that allows clinicians to respond to the neurophysiological needs of any patient. Available as a laptop or desktop, the technology allows...

Ethicon has announced a definitive agreement to acquire NeuWave Medical Inc. Their products are currently used by physicians in over half of the top cancer centers in the United States. This acquisition is consistent with the Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices’...

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...

Stryker Corp. has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Sage Products LLC from Madison Dearborn Partners in an all cash transaction for $2.775 billion. The transaction includes an anticipated future tax benefit that is expected to exceed $500 million and to...

Masimo has announced that in a new study that compared acoustic respiration rate (RRa) from Masimo’s rainbow Acoustic Monitoring (RAM) to respiration rate from conventional capnography, researchers concluded that RAM was useful for monitoring dental patients under...