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With 32 surgical suites spanning more than 90,000 square feet, doctors, nurses and other staff members at the five-hospital Greenville (SC) Hospital System University Medical Center are bound to lose or misplace some device or piece of equipment and not realize it until it’s too late. But as of late last year, the system’s materials services group teamed up with perioperative services to make it that much harder to do. |
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 2009 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
challenging tasks. But HPN’s annual Guide on your desk should make sourcing
for products and service more convenient all year long. Preventative maintenance: Now more important than ever Two quick tips for managing instrument costs Four steps for responsible instrument care Instrument cost containment strategies What to look for in a surgical equipment manufacturer |
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| Infection Connection | ||
 Technology aids medical detectives in
tracking HAIsEpidemiologists represent the classic detectives of medicine whose mission is to track down causes of morbidity and mortality. In a healthcare facility, the killer may be infection, so, the epidemiologists search for the source of the outbreak, investigating the whos, the wheres, the whats, the whens, and the whys of infection, scanning for patterns. |
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 Sluggish economy spurring stronger SUD
reprocessing interest
Cost-containment strategies that promise significant and almost immediate savings, without the need for an initial capital outlay, are particularly alluring to hospitals these days, and that’s a primary reason why reprocessing single-use devices is gaining an even stronger foothold and likely to continue. Extended cycles; ambulatory care sterilization standards; near misses
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What’s the radiofrequency of real time? Deep in the alphabet soup of the acronym-heavy information technology market, neophytes and veterans alike may confuse the terms radiofrequency identification (RFID) and real-time location system (RTLS), using them interchangeably or synonymously. But that isn’t always the case. |
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