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Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) affects roughly 18 million Americans. Approximately 20% of all surgical patients suffer from OSA, with many more still undiagnosed. OSA, a syndrome involving episodic or complete obstruction of the upper airway during sleep that has been linked with obesity in men and women, has become a concern to hospitals in recent years, particularly for patients using patient-controlled analgesic (PCA) therapy. Recognizing the need for enhanced safety measures around PCA therapy, the Alaris System was the preferred choice for Main Line Health.

Bay Medical is a 413 bed regional referral hospital in Panama City, FL, which serves seven counties and features the top rated cardiac program in Northwest Florida. An ongoing challenge for the hospital is managing high value supplies utilized during cardiac and orthopedic surgeries. Furthermore, since specialty inventory is kept in multiple locations, clinicians often spend their time searching for needed items. The decision was made to replace the open scanning system with secure supply automation systems in their main OR areas. Shortly thereafter, the Pyxis ProcedureStation^® system went live.

How well are you performing on key metrics compared to your other hospitals within your IDN? How well is each Pyxis MedStation^® system user performing compared to others at your hospital? How do you compare on Guardrails^® software compliance and Guardrails^® Alerts to other hospitals using the Alaris^® System? New releases of products from Integrated Analytics solutions provide new capabilities that allow you to benchmark your device performance at many levels.

In today’s world of declining reimbursement rates and skyrocketing drug costs, it’s critical for facilities to know and understand the costs involved in providing quality patient care. The Pyxis^® SpecialtyStation^® automated point-of-use medication and supply management system from CareFusion is an effective tool for easily gathering and understanding essential cost information.

In recent years, there have been many technological advances in IV Medication Safety. Studies indicate that there are 1.1 potentially life-threatening and 1.5 probably significant IV medication errors prevented per every 1,000 patient days with smart pumps. The primary objective of this project was to implement Guardrails^® software at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital to prevent related errors.

A closed-loop medication management system is a key patient care strategy at University Medical Center (UMC), a 565-bed facility affiliated with the University of Nevada School of Medicine. Now UMC is advancing that strategy by becoming the first hospital in the nation to adopt Pyxis® Advisor, software available to analyze clinical data from multiple sources and deliver alerts to Nurses at their medication dispensing stations when the potential for adverse drug reactions are detected.

Porter Adventist, a 368-bed community non-profit acute care facility in Denver, CO, implemented the Pyxis MedStation^® system and the Pyxis CIISafe^® system from CareFusion, and began to quickly enjoy the benefits of automation technologies. The hospital continually evaluates opportunities to implement automation and update their practices to optimize the use of existing automation. With roughly 120,000 doses of medication dispensed monthly, Porter staff implemented an “all meds in the Pyxis MedStation^® system” policy, expediting their refill process.

In 1994, a large multi center blood collection facility compared the two-step Blood Donor Prep Kit (70% alcohol Sepp® and a 2% iodine tincture Frepp®) to 10% povidone-iodine. Positive skin cultures were lowest using the Blood Donor Prep Kit. As a result of this validation the blood center switched donor arm prep agents.

Overviews of Surgicept® Waterless hand scrub case studies, including Surgical Scrub Clinical (In Vivo) Efficacy Study, In Vitro Time-Kill Study, Antimicrobial Spectrum Study, Resistant Organism Time-Kill Study, Human Repeat Insult Patch Testing, and Exaggerated Hand Wash Study.

Delta Medical Center is dedicated to providing residents with quality care in a warm, friendly environment. In 2003, the 243-bed community hospital began searching for replacements for its existing infusion pumps, which had been in use for several years. Delta Medical Center was looking for an IV platform that was easy to use and extremely reliable. They considered several possibilities, including the Alaris SE pump with Guardrails Suite MX safety software. At first, there was some apprehension that the advanced safety features of the device might cost too much or be hard to master, but those concerns were quickly put to rest.