Oftentimes, the most common medical procedures can have some very scary statistics. Something that seems routine and common can be riskier than it looks. Cosmetic surgeries can lead to brain damage, botox injections can cause paralysis, even just suturing a scraped knee can prompt a sudden staph infection. Having a urinary catheter is one [...]
“Stay at least 6 feet away from others” seems to be the national anthem right now. I hear it again and again at the grocery store, the office, the bank. Officials are urging everyone to socially distance whenever possible, but the problem is that it isn’t always possible. I have been to the doctors [...]
A lot of strange things have become the new normal in recent months. You legally can’t travel to most of the world, many schools and businesses have gone virtual, you probably went months without going to a single restaurant, and summer was a lot less eventful than in the past. Covid-19 sure has had [...]
You are a vascular access nurse. You work hard to make life easier for all the other nurses and clinicians at your hospital. You are the expert that they call in to place difficult IVs and complete dressing changes on various central lines. Now, imagine that you had to work the night shift and [...]
Covid changed everything, obviously. It’s changed work, hospitals, even home. Do you remember what it was like to go to the movies? Or to dine inside a restaurant? Or even just to have a business meeting without worrying about a pandemic? Every aspect of life has changed, and a lot of these changes [...]
Did you ever wonder where catheter securement devices came from, who invented them, who developed them, or why they were ever created in the first place? The history of catheter securement devices started with a tragedy - a needlestick injury that would change the way catheters are secured for the better. According to [...]
One of the most bittersweet things that can happen to a small medical device company like us is when a patient reaches out to us about how happy they are with one of our products. This sounds like it should be a happy incident, but sometimes it's not. Last year, an elderly patient [...]
Introducing Mask2Shield™, turn any mask into a protective shield in seconds. No one could have predicted that 2020 would fold out as it has. Recent events have changed how the world works, how we do things. It has changed the protocol for almost every aspect of life, and has made us reconsider what [...]
There has always been a silent war going on in the medical world, one fought between large medical device suppliers and small ones. The issue has always been that large suppliers simply have more muscle. They have the ability to sway product decisions in their favor. As a small business, we are tired of [...]
Why are so many clinicians using outdated medical practices? Have you ever started a shift, walked into your patient’s room, and wondered why their IV looks like a bad wrapping job at Christmas time? Asking yourself why on earth did they need to use so much tape? Oftentimes it is because the method of [...]