Skyline Medical Offers the Only Automated Direct-to-Drain Fluid Waste Management System that Suctions Surgical Waste Fluids and Safely Disposes of them Down a Sanitary Drain
EAGAN, MN / ACCESSWIRE / August 8, 2017 / CEOCFO Magazine, an independent investment publication that highlights important technologies and companies, today examines of one of the problems that hospitals, dentist offices, and other medical facilities face - and how a system from Skyline Medical (NASDAQ: SKLN) can solve the problem.
A significant problem in medical facilities, operating rooms, is safely disposing of the large amounts of fluids that are produced during surgeries and other procedures. These fluids include blood, of course, but also urine, ascites, spinal fluid, and the saline solutions used to irrigate wounds and surgical incisions. These fluids can potentially harbor dangerous pathogens like HIV or hepatitis.
The standard method for managing fluids is suctioning them into plastic or glass evacuation canisters. Once they are full, the canisters are then transported to a room where they are opened, and either emptied down the drain or mixed with a solidifier to be sent to a landfill or an incinerator to be burned. All of these processes can expose healthcare workers to the pathogens contained in the fluid. The risk can be substantial - especially when the procedures create multiple evacuation containers.
Because of these risks, some hospitals have installed rooms where there are systems where the canister is directly connected to the drain with no pouring needed. However, this technology still requires the canisters to be transported by staff members and to manually connect them to the system.
Skyline Medical Inc. has developed a far safer automated system called the STREAMWAY® System, one that is approved by the FDA. It suctions fluids from the patient directly to a unit mounted on the wall that's hooked up to the facilities sanitary disposal sewer system. The fluids go through a single use filter, are measured and then are sent directly down the drain system without the need to transport them which increases the chance for exposure risk and cross contamination. As a result, the approach virtually eliminates the possibility that doctors, nurses, or other medical staffers could be exposed to pathogens in the fluid. The system is safe, with the infectious agents neutralized at the facilities sewage treatment facility.
Skyline's technology and potential has not gone unnoticed. On August 1, San Antonio-based CytoBioscience, which makes devices and instruments used for human research that measure how cells react to drugs, announced that it had signed a binding letter of intent for a merger transaction with Skyline.
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