Same Day Discharge: Olympus’s Initiatives for Treating Enlarged Prostate
As our world continues to evolve and develop since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, outpatient procedures are becoming increasingly valuable to our health care system. Same day discharge not only benefits our patients but reduces the overall strain on our healthcare resources. Specific to the growing age of our male population, Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH), also known as enlarged prostate, is a common health issue facing this demographic. BPH therapies supported by innovative medical technologies can play a significant role in supporting same day treatment options and reduce the number of more invasive BPH procedures currently done in hospitals across Canada.
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First knee replacement in Canada using new robotic device, another win for patients while fast-tracking the surgical backlog in Ontario
DePuy Synthes, the Orthopaedics Company of Johnson & Johnson, has partnered with Dr. Michael Zywiel of the Schroeder Arthritis Institute to perform the first knee replacement surgery in Canada assisted by a robotic device that helps the surgeon plan the surgery with more accuracy.
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MOLLI Surgical’s Award-Winning Technology can help Overloaded Hospitals with Greater Efficiency, Increased Accessibility, More Flexible Scheduling, and a Better Patient Experience
One way to help solve the backlog for Canada’s overloaded hospitals is to adopt technology that makes surgeries more efficient while improving the patient experience. MOLLI Surgical is improving localization — the process of identifying and marking the location of a lesion in soft tissue such as the breast.
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Medtronic’s remote patient management and vital signs monitoring systems reduce the strain on hospitals
Long waiting lists, hospital capacity issues, and infection risks make it increasingly difficult to provide patients with the best care. Remote patient monitoring is an excellent way to reduce overcrowding, provide better access to care, and minimize unnecessary exposure for both staff and patients.
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Medtronic’s technology provides faster endoscopy management
The PillCam Capsule Endoscopy System is a video camera the shape and size of a pill that patients swallow, which aids physicians to detect digestive tract diseases. It has proven to be a safe, minimally invasive and clinically proven method for visualizing the small bowel and colon.
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Thermo Fisher Scientific’s in-air pathogen surveillance system supports strong COVID-19 risk mitigation strategies
As the world learns to adapt and live with COVID-19, more entities are looking to use surveillance techniques as a layered approach to improve facility safety protocols along with vaccines, diagnostic testing, masking, social distancing and other mitigation strategies.
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Baxter increases surgical efficiency and improves outcomes by helping to reduce bleeding related complications
For all patients undergoing surgery, surgeons aim to prevent excessive bleeding and avoid complications, which can increase the risk of illness and mortality. To do so, surgeons utilize different hemostatic (blood loss reduction) strategies that may include the use of different products known as hemostats to help limit and stop bleeding.
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Siemens Healthineers delivers increased lab testing capacity, providing better management of rising patient testing demands
Laboratory testing volumes have increased exponentially, putting increased demand on improved turn-around times. In this context, reducing the downtime associated with maintenance and upkeep of equipment is crucial to laboratories. This is true both in the community and in hospitals.
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GE Healthcare’s anesthesia solution reduces backlog by freeing up staff time
GE Healthcare’s multipurpose anesthesia solution enhances clinical documentation and decision-making from pre-operative assessment, throughout the patient’s time in the operating room and Post-anesthetic Care Unit. The anesthesia solution can help to address the medical services backlog by freeing up to 28 hours of staff time every week in the perioperative department.
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New modules in GE Healthcare’s Centricity™ Opera improve OR utilization and reduce cancellations
GE Healthcare’s Centricity™ Opera is a unique theatre management software solution that improves OR utilization, reduces non-medical cancellations, and supports a change management culture that can adjust to ongoing challenges related to the medical services backlog.
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Deferring Surgery With Zimmer Biomet's Early Intervention Treatment
Zimmer Biomet’s nSTRIDE® is an early intervention knee treatment is designed to help restore balance in a progressing osteoarthritic (OA) knee.
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Urgo Medical’s Diabetic Foot Ulcer (DFU) treatment reduces the clinical burden for patients, and the economic burden for healthcare systems
Diabetic Foot Ulcer is a common condition that causes considerable pain and affects many areas of a person’s life.
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Addressing Surgical Backlogs With TeleVU’s Telepresence Solution for Remote Surgical Consultation and Proctorship
Addressing surgical backlogs left by the recent pandemic is a costly proposition. This calls for improving efficiencies and reducing procedure times without compromising patient outcomes.
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Drager’s digital anaesthesia monitoring tool improves perioperative care and enhances health care resource utilization
With an ageing population, and growing demand for more complex surgical procedures in patients with limited physiological reserves, the need to fine-tune anaesthetic management in order to optimize perioperative care is greater than ever. Both under-dosage and over-dosage of general anaesthetic can harm frail patients1 and lead to increased length of stay in hospitals.
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bioMérieux’s rapid diagnostic shortens length of stay for patients
Meningitis and encephalitis are potentially life-threatening infections of the central nervous system. When patients come to a community hospital and have a suspected case of meningitis or encephalitis, they are, after a cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) sample has been taken, administered empirical treatment—an antibiotic, antiviral or antifungal cocktail.
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Remote patient monitoring enabled by Abbott’s technologies improve diabetes management post-pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic presented significant challenges for patients trying to access and navigate the healthcare system, especially for those living with a chronic condition like diabetes. For many, it seriously disrupted the delivery of regular diabetes care, in-person appointments and increased the complications related to diabetes including diabetic foot ulcers, hypoglycemia and diabetic ketoacidosis.
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Baxter’s Ambulatory Infusor for Post-Operative Pain Management Helps Reduce Hospital Length-of-Stay
As the healthcare system grapples to clear the pandemic surgical backlog and open hospital beds for other critically ill patients, many Canadian organizations have adopted the use of Continuous Peripheral Nerve Block (CPNB) for post-operative pain management. Effective post-operative pain management is a priority for clinicians and patients that helps reduce hospital length-of-stay and there are opportunities to expand the use of CPNB in Canada.
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Vocera helps to improve patient flow and enhance productivity before and after surgeries
In partnership with Cuyuna Regional Medical Center (CRMC), Vocera (through the use of the Vocera® system) is helping to drive streamlined communication, improved patient throughput, and enhanced productivity for their pre and post surgery (perioperative) services. The Vocera system is a technology platform for clinical communication and workflow used at more than 2,300 facilities worldwide.
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Hillrom is helping to save 252,000 hours of nursing time through medical device integration
In 2015, The Ottawa Hospital implemented one Welch Allyn vital signs monitor for every patient bed and connected them to their hospital information system. The impact was significant: 252,000 nursing hours, or $11.3M in nursing time, saved from administrative documentation that could be completely automated.
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