According to the CDC, there were an estimated 1.7 million health care related infections in 2002 alone. Health care related infections cause 90,000 deaths and over $30 billion annually in related costs including additional medication to treat the infections and in some cases, legal ones. These infections are frequently acquired while undergoing treatment such as having surgery or dialysis. J...
A growing number of public areas such as businesses and public transit stations have portable defibrillators available to help revive victims of cardiac arrest. Reestablishing the heartbeat is only half the battle, though. A person's brain cells begin dying off within three minutes of the heart stopping, and permanent damage or death occurs after six minutes. However, if the brain's need for blood...
Thanks in part to legislation such as the Americans with Disabilities Act passed in 1991, disabled and wheelchair bound people now have greater access than ever before to public transportation, public buildings, restrooms, parking spaces and entertainment venues. However, one area that has not received as much attention, especially for disabled women, is fashion. Just because a woman ...
For some 70,000 people a year, ostomy surgery is a life saving option. However, it does have life-changing effects. The ostomate (post-surgical patient) must wear a pouch over the stoma to collect the waste materials that had previously left the body through the bladder or rectum. As the pouch fills, its weight can pull at the area around the stoma, and it can rub against the skin when the wearer ...
While most of us know how important it is to get enough sleep for our health and well-being, many of us do not get as much as we need. The Centers of Disease Control and Prevention reports that more than one-quarter of the U.S. population does not get enough sleep. For people who work the night shift like nurses and other health care professionals, getting enough sleep is even more challenging. Be...
We've all watched medical dramas where the announcement "code blue" triggers a hurricane of activity, including navigating a crash cart with a full-size defibrillator down a crowded hall to the patient's bedside. Somehow, it gets there in the nick of time without damage to anyone or anything, subject to the whims of the writers.
In real life, though, Philips has developed a compact, easy to use s...
Like a car needs tires or a shoe needs a sole, a hospital bed needs sheets. Hospitals, nursing homes, recovery centers, and family homes all have hospital beds, but trying to find fitted sheets for these beds that have three moving sections, well, it's not that easy. Because of the heavy use, hospital sheets should be both comfortable for the patient while also being durable and easy t...
According to the CDC, there were an estimated 1.7 million health care related infections in 2002 alone. Health care related infections cause 90,000 deaths and over $30 billion annually in related costs including additional medication to treat the infections and in some cases, legal ones. These infections are frequently acquired while undergoing treatment such as having surgery or dialysis. J...
A growing number of public areas such as businesses and public transit stations have portable defibrillators available to help revive victims of cardiac arrest. Reestablishing the heartbeat is only half the battle, though. A person's brain cells begin dying off within three minutes of the heart stopping, and permanent damage or death occurs after six minutes. However, if the brain's need for blood...
Thanks in part to legislation such as the Americans with Disabilities Act passed in 1991, disabled and wheelchair bound people now have greater access than ever before to public transportation, public buildings, restrooms, parking spaces and entertainment venues. However, one area that has not received as much attention, especially for disabled women, is fashion. Just because a woman ...
For some 70,000 people a year, ostomy surgery is a life saving option. However, it does have life-changing effects. The ostomate (post-surgical patient) must wear a pouch over the stoma to collect the waste materials that had previously left the body through the bladder or rectum. As the pouch fills, its weight can pull at the area around the stoma, and it can rub against the skin when the wearer ...
While most of us know how important it is to get enough sleep for our health and well-being, many of us do not get as much as we need. The Centers of Disease Control and Prevention reports that more than one-quarter of the U.S. population does not get enough sleep. For people who work the night shift like nurses and other health care professionals, getting enough sleep is even more challenging. Be...
We've all watched medical dramas where the announcement "code blue" triggers a hurricane of activity, including navigating a crash cart with a full-size defibrillator down a crowded hall to the patient's bedside. Somehow, it gets there in the nick of time without damage to anyone or anything, subject to the whims of the writers.
In real life, though, Philips has developed a compact, easy to use s...
Like a car needs tires or a shoe needs a sole, a hospital bed needs sheets. Hospitals, nursing homes, recovery centers, and family homes all have hospital beds, but trying to find fitted sheets for these beds that have three moving sections, well, it's not that easy. Because of the heavy use, hospital sheets should be both comfortable for the patient while also being durable and easy t...