This is just too classic not to mention and thanks to the Happy Hospitalist for posting on his blog! He states he had one of his readers make this find and hey let’s face it, how many of us have not at some time just walked in toe the 99 Cent or Dollar store to at least just look around. ...
The first task of of business is to upgrade the ER at Alvarado Hospital. In Orange County where I live in California, you can roll bowling balls through the once busy parking lots as the company does not normally sign contracts with insurers and charges their customary rates. Just as the...
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Prime Healthcare is back in the news again, this time not over ownership and claim issues, but infection rates this time. Prime Health though is still in the business of buying up hospitals when the opportunities arise and a few months ago they were unsuccessful in their bid for IHHI, a chain of...
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This is not your regular clinical trial as we think of, but rather using soap and mouthwash that contains Chlorhexadine to be given to a patient upon release from the hospital. Hospitals in Los Angeles and Orange County will identify patients with MRSA or staph infections. In addition patients...
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2 additional size catheters have been added and a hospital acquired infection is every patient’s and doctor’s nightmare. Minocycline/rifampin is the antibiotic drug impregnated on the catheter. BD Press Release: Bloomington, Ind. – September 20, 2010 – Responding to increased demand...
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We all know the value of a sterile environment and fight this all the time. The new approach would a coat of bacterial killing paint. Enzyme coating in the paint could take any surface and make it sterile. They are using what nature uses with nano particles. So far this is just...
This is not quite what I expected to see as these guys look like small fork lifts that will be running around taking care of business. When you watch the video you can see they have their own assigned areas in the basement and a PDA can simply give a call for one to respond. They will move...
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This is pretty interesting in the fact that the device mixes silver, zinc and copper ions within the device instead of a coating placed on the outside, in other words it is part of the product or solution. 5 percent of spinal surgeries are known to involve infections and this appears to be able...
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With all the recent concern about MRSA, this article goes to show that bacteria can be living anywhere, besides the hospital. According to the article here, he was misdiagnosed and later it turns up he had the flesh eating bacteria infection and after the fact needed quite a bit of surgery to help...
New technology in development, a card that you would swipe just as is done with credit cards. As listed below the card could give instant information relative to PSA testing, Herpes, and markers with personalized medicine. The results would be within a few minutes instead of days or even...
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