News and Notes

Forecast Nurses are exiting the workforce and their facilities and quickly returning as patients. Hiring practices, retention efforts, and programs to ease the transition from school into practice are becoming a prime focus for hospitals. 1. Although many nurses are...

Dräger has announced the release of the Perseus A500 anesthesia workstation, one of the largest development projects ever from Dräger. This device offers configurability, high-performance ventilation, enhanced ergonomics, and automation to support the workflow of the...

By Katherine Velez Many facilities are interested in using emerging technologies such as ultraviolet (UV-C) light emitting devices as part of the nationwide effort to reduce hospital-acquired infections (HAIs). This is in part due to the inherent limitations of manual...

Endoscopy-America Inc. has announced that the Karl Storz C-Hub II Control Unit was recognized as a 2015 Innovation of the Year by the Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons (SLS). Recipients of this year’s honors were announced during Minimally Invasive Surgery Week,...

Surface Medical Inc. has expanded its CleanPatch product offering with the introduction of a smaller size. SMI now offers a 5-centimeter (2-inch) circular CleanPatch designed to repair punctures and the earliest points of damage. This new offering features the same...

neoSurgical Inc. has announced that the company’s neoClose system for port site closure after Laparoscopic surgery has been used 2,000 times in hospitals across the U.S. Northwestern Memorial-Prentice Hospital in Chicago is the newest addition to neoSurgical’s growing...