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Patient and Provider Safety

Healthcare workers rely on products to provide an efficient and safe way of delivering patient care while protecting them from accidental injury. That's why Teleflex Medical is focused on building safety into our products through an intimate understanding of their use. Our focus is to stay current with evidence-based best practices to help our customers implement solutions that drive improved healthcare processes. The end result is not only cost efficiency, but improved patient care and a safer environment for patient and caregiver.

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The Arrow® Maximal Barrier Precautions Tray is one of many Teleflex products designed with safety in mind. It helps to protect both patients and staff with tools that comply with the latest guidelines from the CDC, IHI and INS. Some of these tools include: Arrowg+ard®, ChloraPrep®, full body drape, insertion checklist, sharps safety devices, cap, mask and gown for the provider.
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The Gibeck® Humid-Flo® HME takes patient protection to a whole new level. Designed to remain in-line during aerosol treatments, the Humid-Flo allows medication to be delivered without breaking the breathing circuit and interrupting ventilation. This promotes patient safety by reducing the risk of cross contamination while protecting the caregiver from depressurizing circuits.
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Chosen for their revolutionary tip design, unique valve and seal, and extraordinary performance, Taut® ADAPt® laparoscopic access ports have been shown in clinical studies to create small defects and avoid bladed trocar complications.1,2,3,4,5 ADAPt ports provide exceptional performance for surgeons and eliminate the need for metal or plastic bladed trocars in general, gynecological, urological and robotic surgery.
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The new Arrow StimuCath® continuous nerve block catheter kits have been redesigned and packaged efficiently into a new lower-profile tray, improving storage, removing the component clutter and enabling a more streamlined preparation time effort. The StimuCath kit provides safety protection for the provider and patient with the addition of sharps safety features, including SafetyGlide® Protected Needles, SharpsAway II® Locking Disposal Cup, and StatLock® Catheter Stabilization Device and tinted ChloraPrep® Hi-Lite Orange®. ChloraPrep provides the patient with infection protection and meets the CDC1A recommendation. Further, the StimuCath is clinically proven to be safe and effective for post-operative pain management.
 
 

References:

 

1 Dr. Robert Albee and Dr. Ken Sinervo, Center for Endometriosis Care, Atlanta, Georgia. “Bladeless Laparoscopy: A Multi-Centered, Cross-Disciplinary Prospective Study of a New Bladeless Laparoscopic Port”.

 

2 Dr. Steven D. Bush, M.D., Fox Valley Women’s Health Partners. “Laparoscopy without Trocars: 50 Consecutive LSH Procedures with a New Bladeless Port”.

 

3 Dr. John Dulemba, Denton Regional Medical Center, Denton, TX. “Bladeless Gynecological Laparoscopy – A Prospective Study 87 Consecutive Cases”.

 

4 “The Trouble with Trocars”, Linda Carroll, Women’s Health Columnist for MSNBC.COM. ALFRED LUBRANO IS A REPORTER FOR THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER. November 2001 issue of SmartMoney.

 

5 “Comparative Evaluation of Laparoscopic Access Systems: A study of entry force, intraperitoneal pressure and incisional characteristics with a novel bladeless design (“ADAPt”) and a composite dilating system (“VersaStep”) ADAPt vs Versa Step.” Malcolm G. Munro, M.D., Professor Christopher M. Tarnay, M.D., Assistant Professor Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, January 31, 2003.

 

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