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How Oxygen Masks in Upper Endoscopies can Improve Patient and Staff Safety
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Addressing Hypoxia During Upper Endoscopy
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Bell Medical Presents 10 Innovative Products in the Anesthesia Buyers Guide
Bell Medical is proud to introduce 10 anesthesiologist tools and equipment in the Anesthesia News Buyer’s Guide. The products are: BiteMe, EyePro, NoPress, Insight Video Airway System and iWorkstation, Pi Pillow, Warrior, POM, Stimpod NMS450, Tereboot Nerve Block Support, and Metro Carts. You may view all of these anesthesiologist tools and equipment on the Buyer’s … Read more
Aluminum: The Hidden Danger in Blood Warmers
Posted on September 21, 2021 by Stephen Alexander Recently, there have been growing concerns from regulatory agencies, such as the FDA, as to the safety of aluminum containing medical devices, especially those involved with the infusion of fluids into patients. Just this past year, the FDA has recalled six intravenous fluid warming products due to … Read more
1976 – Oh what a Year!!
In 1976 Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak started a small computer company and called it Apple Computers. The first commercial supersonic Concorde flight took place between London and New York. The film “Rocky” was released and Jimmy Carter was elected president of the USA. NASA’s Viking 1 Lander touches down on Mars and they also … Read more
Innovative MAC anesthesia approach to reducing nausea and vomiting!
Patients experience nausea and vomiting 30-50% of surgical recoveries! There are NO positive reviews from a patient that vomits post-surgery. PONV is costly in many ways including slowed patient recovery, poor patient experience and in increased staffing needs. Reducing PONV can help make hospitals and surgery centers become more productive, more pleasant and more profitable … Read more
No One’s Safe Until Everybody’s Safe
5.4.2021 It’s unclear who first made this comment about the Covid-19 pandemic, but it is being used by health care leaders around the world to encourage their people to get the Covid-19 vaccination. Vaccines have played an important role throughout history in keeping us well. Evidence exists that early attempts to inoculate people against smallpox … Read more
Corneal Abrasion; problem what problem?
Well, it all depends on which side of the fence you are sitting on. Most medical definitions describe a corneal abrasion as a painful scrape or scratch on the surface of the clear part of the eye. This clear tissue of the eye is known as the cornea, the transparent window covering the iris, the circular coloured … Read more
Doctor There’s a Problem in the Recovery Room
The operation had been a long, but it had been a success. The patient had been taken into the recovery room and was being looked after by theatre staff as they were slowly woken up. In theatre the anaesthetist was talking with colleagues about the operation. Suddenly, a member of staff put their head through … Read more