The WarmTouch 5300 warming unit provides fast warmup, quiet operation and optimal temperature ranges for OR and PACU needs.
Features include automatic temperature step-down from boost (45 degrees Celsius) to high (43 degrees Celsius) to warm very cold patients; automatic shutdown at 50 degrees Celsius to assure patient safety; a cord wrap that keeps it out of the way with a collapsible hose; and a HEPA filter that reduces airborne particulate.

Two universal thermal pads that enable rapid application of temperature management and greater flexibility in pad placement on patients are available with the Kimberly-Clark Patient Warming System.
The small or large-sized rectangle pads are designed to be placed anywhere on the body where there is intact, well-perfused skin. The warming system provides a noninvasive method of temperature control, requiring minimal body coverage for maximum access to surgical sites and is ideal for complex surgeries involving access to large surface areas or open cavities.

Researchers in Boston found that undergoing hypnosis prior to breast biopsies could help ease pain and anxiety associated with the procedure, which uses a large needle to extract suspect tissue for investigation.


Disaster preparedness is one of the cruel realities with which healthcare professionals must contend today, more so than probably any other generation of caregivers — because while there have always been wars, disease, natural disasters and fanatics to create mass impact on the general population, the convergence of all these factors plus the threat of terrorist devastations has shaped our 'be-ready-for-anything' culture.

If the tragedies of 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina taught us anything, it was that the key to survival rests largely on preparedness. This is especially true for healthcare; but a nagging question still remains: Are hospitals today better prepared to handle disasters or even day-to-day medical emergencies?

Consistently ranked as one of the “Top 100 Most Wired Hospitals in the U.S.” by Hospitals and Health Networks magazine, Rockford Memorial Hospital is a 490-bed community hospital in Rockford, Il that performs approximately 10,000 surgical procedures annually.

Acuo Technologies LLC and NU Design Medical Technologies Inc. have announced the incorporation of Acuo’s DICOM Services Grid technology into NU Design’s Mammography Manager.

The cooperative effort will reportedly allow Mammography Manager to automatically route, based on content, to a reading physician without manual intervention. The resulting system will enable content-aware DICOM routing, storage virtualization, JPEG, encryption and storage virtualization, the companies said.

Misys Healthcare Systems and Silver Cross Hospital announced a partnership to extend the hospital’s Health e-Way clinical information system into the region’s electronic health record using Misys solutions as part of the hospital’s plan to provide real-time data sharing to physicians.

Silver Cross will implement Misys EMR and Misys Tiger for practice management, as well as Misys Connect, which will connect Silver Cross physicians, hospital clinicians and caregivers to provide full access to patient information.

Recent downplay of the media’s attention to DES-related thrombosis during both the TCT and AHA conferences this fall may have been premature in light of a new study coming out of the Cleveland Clinic.

A meta-analysis published in the December issue of the American Journal of Medicine indicates that patients with drug-eluting stents have a four to five-fold increased relative risk for developing late thrombosis compared to those with bare-metal stents. It is the first published analysis of its kind, PRNewswire reports.

The VeinViewer by Luminetx is a technology to locate subcutaneous vasculature and project real-time images of their location onto the surface of the skin, allowing the physician to clearly see accessible vasculature (or lack thereof). An adjustable head can be positioned over almost any part of the patient's anatomy, leaving the hands of the clinician free for clinical intervention.

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