Ascom Digistat Vitals: A New Offering to Record Patient Information at Bedside
Ascom, a Swiss firm, is releasing a new product designed to improve how clinicians record patient information into electronic medical records (EMR). The Digistat Vitals system relies on the dedicated Ascom Myco smartphone, or certain compatible Android phones, as the interface for data entry. A special app is used at the bedside to save vitals and other clinical data, which is automatically transferred to the in-clinic EMR without having to do any manual data management and avoiding transcription.
To speed up visits with patients, the app provides automatic clinical calculators and scoring templates that make it easy to ...
Source: Medgadget - October 9, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Cardiology Critical Care Medicine Surgery Source Type: blogs
Parable Technology for Wound Care: Interview with Nathan Ie, Founder of Parable Health
Parable is a software platform that allows doctors and home health workers to collaboratively monitor wound healing and to flag any issues. The technology has been designed by Parable Health and allows doctors to assess wound parameters and healing progress from “smart” photos taken using a phone’s camera. The doctor can schedule virtual check-ins with the patient. The idea is that this will reduce transportation costs in bringing patients to and from health care facilities for regular checkups, streamline data collection, and allow for collaborative care between various healthcare professionals. The tech...
Source: Medgadget - May 30, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Exclusive Medicine Plastic Surgery Vascular Surgery Source Type: blogs
Fibrin Glue Market: Asia is expected to witness high growth rates in the next five years, 2021
Fibrin glue is a unique adhesion material used in surgeries for closure of wounds. Fibrin glues are mainly extracted from collective plasma and contain different amounts of purified and virally-inactivated human proteins. Fibrin glue is composed of two components, including fibrinogen and factor XIII. These concentrated ingredients interact with a solution of thrombin and calcium to form coagulum. As the thrombin and fibrinogen/factor XIII solution combine, a clot of a blood protein called fibrin develops in a few seconds, depending on the dilute form of thrombin is used. Some of the characteristics of fibrin glue include ...
Source: Medical Hemostat - November 19, 2016 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: hemostatguy at gmail.com (hemostat guy) Source Type: blogs
Maggots and wound debridement
I think I am enjoying CBBC's Operation Ouch rather more than my lad, who is within the target age group of CBBC! This is a series about the body, medicine and health, and the presenters are doctors.Today's edition included a journey with paramedics, a six year old visiting A and E having fallen on gravel, and bacteria being grown after people have kissed a Petri dish.And sterile fly larvae being bred and used to treat wounds, with a warning before the footage was shown of a foot wound being debrided. I remembered that this was a search topic we used to use in classes as an example to work on, as there are thing...
Source: Browsing - January 1, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: EBP maggots wounds Source Type: blogs
Sucking Chest Wound Management
A sucking chest wound or open pneumothorax is a fairly uncommon event off the battlefield, and civilian guidelines as a result are highly dependent on the experience of the military expert opinion concerning their management. Past recommendations were to place a three-sided occlusive dressing to allow air to egress to prevent a tension pneumothorax, but battlefield guidelines calling for an occlusive dressing closed on three of four sides have not proven to be effective or realistic. Covering the wound improves respiratory mechanics, but the three-sided occlusive dressing on bleeding chest wounds is no longer recommended. ...
Source: M2E Too! Mellick's Multimedia EduBlog - September 3, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
Sucking Chest Wound Management
A sucking chest wound or open pneumothorax is a fairly uncommon event off the battlefield, and civilian guidelines as a result are highly dependent on the experience of the military expert opinion concerning their management. Past recommendations were to place a three-sided occlusive dressing to allow air to egress to prevent a tension pneumothorax, but battlefield guidelines calling for an occlusive dressing closed on three of four sides have not proven to be effective or realistic. Covering the wound improves respiratory mechanics, but the three-sided occlusive dressing on bleeding chest wounds is no longer recommended. ...
Source: M2E Too! Mellick's Multimedia EduBlog - September 3, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
Making a Difference in Samoa
By Peyton Hassinger, MD
Josh Skaggs, Nathan Ramsey, and I traveled to Samoa with Mission of Hope Ministries for two weeks in July 2012. We were part of a team of about 35 people consisting of four doctors (one other pediatrician from Hawaii), four nurses, medical students, and many other support staff.
Mission of Hope is a South Carolina organization that has been taking groups to Samoa every year for the past 15 years to do medical work. (http://missionofhope-us.org.) The leader is a pastor originally from American Samoa who now lives in Columbia, SC. He recently became the chief of his village in American Samoa, and is...
Source: Going Global - May 12, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
Making a Difference in Samoa
By Peyton Hassinger, MD
Josh Skaggs, Nathan Ramsey, and I traveled to Samoa with Mission of Hope Ministries for two weeks in July 2012. We were part of a team of about 35 people consisting of four doctors (one other pediatrician from Hawaii), four nurses, medical students, and many other support staff.
Mission of Hope is a South Carolina organization that has been taking groups to Samoa every year for the past 15 years to do medical work. (http://missionofhope-us.org.) The leader is a pastor originally from American Samoa who now lives in Columbia, SC. He recently became the chief of his village in American Samoa, and is n...
Source: Going Global - May 12, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
Self-Adaptive Wound Dressings: Interview with Oleg Siniaguine, Founder of OSNovative Systems
About a year ago we wrote about a rapidly growing start-up from Silicon Valley that developed a very unusual technology, now widely used for wound management in a variety of situation. This is sort-of a reunion for us with Oleg Siniaguine, Ph.D, president and founder of OSNovative Systems in Santa Clara, California, who was happy to give us a better overview of self-adaptive dressings and how the company is progressing.
Medgadget: Oleg, let’s refresh one more time, since this is still a very unique and innovative approach to wound care. What exactly is your product?
Oleg Siniaguine: Our product is a conceptually new a...
Source: Medgadget - November 12, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Editors Tags: in the news... Source Type: blogs
iTClamp Hemorrhage Control System for Severe Wounds FDA Approved (VIDEO)
iTraumaCare of Edmonton, Canada received FDA clearance for its iTClamp Hemorrhage Control System, a wound closure device designed for emergency situations like battlefield trauma and whenever else quick hemostasis is necessary.Already approved in Europe earlier this year, the iTClamp was designed by a Canadian Navy trauma surgeon who had substantial experience with wound management while serving in Afghanistan. It looks and works much like a hair clip, but with piercing metal teeth that bite into skin and pull it together to create a tight seal. The gums of the device apply even pressure along the seal and force blood to ...
Source: Medgadget - May 30, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Editors Tags: Emergency Medicine Military Medicine Surgery Source Type: blogs
