emilyjanik

There’s a surprising lack of good, truly neonatal-specific devices in the medical industry - oftentimes medical device manufacturers realize that there is a gap in their products from not offering a neonatal version of their adult device. Usually, to fill this gap, they just shrink their adult device down. Once in a while, there [...]

Catheters are some of the most commonly used medical devices in the world. Every day, close to 1 million patients have a catheter placed, meaning over 307 million catheters are used every year in the USA alone. Because of their widespread use, catheters end up causing a great deal of complications. In fact, 30-46% [...]

The answer is because of their suppliers. Most of the multi-billion dollar companies that manufacture temperature monitoring esophageal stethoscopes have run into severe backorder situations of late. Why? Because unlike Starboard Medical, they don’t make their own sensors, but instead purchase them from someone else and have to rely on them to ship on [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]