Advanced Delivery System For IVC Filters
September 28, 2009 6:59 am | Cook Surgical | Product Releases | CommentsThe device’s new design simplifies jugular deployment, minimizes trauma and is compatible with full line of IVC filters. Physicians can now navigate even the most tortuous anatomy with greater speed and safety with the next-generation inferior vena cava (IVC) filter delivery system introduced by Cook Medical at TCT 2009.
LISTED UNDER: Catheter SystemsProtective Disk Proven To Reduce Catheter-Related Infection
May 8, 2009 7:39 am | Ethicon, Inc. | Product Releases | CommentsThe Wound Management division of Ethicon, Inc. offers the Biopatch, a protective disk with CHG to prevent catheter-related bloodstream infections (CRBSI) and local infections. According to the company, it is the only dressing clinically proven for use in skin antisepsis. A study published in JAMA® in 2009 showed use of a chlorhexidine gluconate-impregnated sponge (CHGIS) in intravascular catheter dressings reduced rates of catheter-related infections (CRIs), and also showed that changing unsoiled, adherent dressings every seven days rather than three days appears safe.
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