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Bariatric Products
& Equipment Guide 2010 |
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Bariatric
products continue to expand their scope
Glancing quickly at the statistics and it’s easy to see the compounding
magnitude of the problems associated with obesity – a disease that affects
more than 34 percent of adults beginning at age 20 in the United States,
equating to more than 72 million people. It’s a trend that motivates many
healthcare organizations to standardize on higher-weight capacity equipment
facility-wide.
Bariatric Product Focus
Bariatric Vendor
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Personal Protection
Purchasing Guide 2010 |
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2010
Personal Protection Equipment Guide
Personal protective equipment, PPE, is what allows caregivers to do their
job without fear of contracting deadly infections. Everyday they suit up
in gloves, gowns, masks, eye and facial protection, depending on the
anticipated exposure. Healthcare Purchasing News offers tips and
tools to gear up for battling stronger bugs.
Armed, shielded to evade
danger from microbial foes
PPE Vendor Chart
PPE Product Spotlights |
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Surgical Instruments Guide
2010 |
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2010 Surgical Instruments Guide
Healthcare Purchasing News’ annual Surgical Instruments Guide
offers relevant information for sourcing potential suppliers and service
providers. Evaluating instrument manufacturers and product quality, and
selecting the optimal devices and cost-effectively maintaining their
usefulness, can be monumental tasks if you don’t have HPN’s
convenient annual Guide on your desk for help all year long.
Instruments &
Accesories Vendor Chart
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Sterile Processing
Accessories Guide 2009 |
Brushing up on brush basics
While accessories may make the outfit in the fashion world and the right
tools may lead to quality craftsmanship in the construction business,
healthcare – specifically, sterile processing – sports its own adages. Just
as one wouldn’t expect a surgeon to perform a procedure well without
wielding the proper quality instrument, sterile processing technicians
simply cannot adequately clean instruments and equipment if they’re using an
incorrect, dirty or damaged brush.
Curbing wet packs takes dedication, detective work
Frequent use of wet packs not only frustrates technicians and clinicians
alike but signals a larger problem that requires prompt, proactive detective
work to determine the cause and appropriate solution, including training.
Accessories vendor chart
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Sterile Processing Equipment/Technology Guide 2010
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Sterile
Processing Equipment/Technology Guide
From washers, decontaminators, sterilizers and other relevant technology
to the accessories needed to reprocess medical/surgical devices, sterile
processing professionals need information to make optimal choices.
Healthcare Purchasing News highlights and spotlights what’s available.
Sterile Processing Equipment/Technology Vendor Charts |
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Infection Control Buyers
Guide 2009 |
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Infection preventionists, vendors must ‘speak the same
language’
Just as
hospitals are scrambling to ramp up their arsenal of policies,
procedures and products to help fight healthcare acquired infections,
infection preventionists face increasing regulation and reporting
requirements. Consequently, companies that sell products and services
need to understand some of the basics of microbiology and epidemiology
to emphasize solutions. For more details, turn to Healthcare
Purchasing News’ annual Infection Control Buyer’s Guide.
HAI
Prevention tool kit
High-touch equals high-risk
IC
Product Spotlights
Infection Control Product Guide
by Supplier's Name
A-K
L-Z
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Cart Purchasing Guide
2009 |
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Cart
blanche:
Adaptability drives buying patterns If you’re shopping for any type
of cart lately, you’ve likely been inundated by a variety of features and
enhancements designed to satisfy user demands for improved efficiencies,
increased reliability and expanded functionality. HPN’s Cart
Purchasing Guide will give you reliable pointers and information to aid in
your search.
Chart of Cart
Vendors
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Sharps Safety Guide
2009 |
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Sharps
Safety Guide 2009: Get sharp about safety measures
No discussion of needlestick injury trends would be complete without
considering the impact of the U.S. Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act of
2000, which mandated the use of safety-engineered sharp devices. The
legislation also prompted the Occupational Safety and Health Administration
(OSHA) to revise its Bloodborne Pathogens standard in 2001, strengthening
requirements for employers to identify and make use of effective and safer
medical devices. Despite such progress, nearly a decade later there’s still
work to be done.
Sharps Safety Vendor Chart
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Capital Equipment Guide
2009 |
Tech tools
eclipsed by turbulent economy?
Keeping up with the Joneses can
be an adrenaline-filled rush in social circles but keeping up with the
latest medical/surgical technology can be a bit more complicated,
particularly during economic hard times, and when supply chain managers have
to wrangle with doctors and payers over physician brand preference,
reimbursement cutbacks, budgetary shortfalls, patient demographics and
clinical efficacy, and manufacturers roll out even more advanced devices,
sporting the latest bells and whistles with hefty price tags to boot.
Capital pains:
Tech tools eclipsed by turbulent economy?
Effective
equipment planning begins in the ‘basement’
Coming to
terms with used equipment definitions
Capital
spending caught in the Web
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Endoscope Care Guide
2009 |
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Endoscope
Care Guide 2009 There’s an old adage that if you take
care of your tools they will take care of you. In hospital and outpatient
surgical suites and operating rooms, the reciprocal effect is doubled
because they take care of patients, too. For a variety of tips and tricks
from the professionals to keep those costly endoscopic instruments primed
and ready for action all year long, turn to Healthcare Purchasing News’
2009 Endoscope Care Guide for clues.
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