EAGAN, MN / ACCESSWIRE / November 20, 2017 / CEOCFO Magazine, an independent investment publication that highlights important technologies and companies, today explains how leading hospitals are beginning to protect their workers from dangerous fluids with a system from Skyline Medical (NASDAQ: SKLN).
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Hospitals do thousands of surgeries and other procedures every day. These procedures often result in the production of large amounts of blood, urine, saline solution, and other fluids. These fluids can contain dangerous infectious agents such as HIV or hepatitis. As a result, the hospitals face the challenge of safely disposing of these potentially infectious fluids.
The usual method for dealing with these fluids is suctioning them up into canisters. Once each canister is full, hospital workers must move them out of the operating room, typically on carts. Then, the workers open up the canisters and dump the fluids down the drain. But this approach means that workers may be exposed to the infectious agents in the liquid.
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One of many workers who faced this threat was Fran Hahn, now a nurse at Huntingdon Valley Surgery Center in Pennsylvania, when she was working at a different hospital. She was changing a canister during a procedure, when fluid from the patient splashed into her eye, she recalls. "The patient was HIV-positive, so I had to be tested for the next 18 months."
Fortunately, Hahn turned out not to be infected. But the uncertainty and the months of waiting were agonizing. "No one should have to go through that," she says.
Thanks to Skyline Medical, it's no longer necessary for anyone to go through the ordeal that Hahn faced. Skyline has developed an automated device, called the STREAMWAY® System, which suctions fluids from the patient directly to a unit mounted on the wall. The unit, in turn, connects with the facilities plumbing system. So the fluids go directly from the patient to the drain at the point of collection, so the fluids don't have to be handled by nurses or other workers.
For Huntingdon Valley Surgery Center, this system virtually eliminated the possibility that doctors, nurses, and other medical staffers will be exposed to pathogens while collecting and disposing of the fluid. What's more, doctors discovered that it also improves suction, helping them work more efficiently and get better outcomes in their operations. "For facilities like ours that take pride in providing the best patient care and keeping staff safe, STREAMWAY is such a logical choice," says Hahn.
The benefits don't end there, hospitals have found. At the Tucson Medical Center (TMC), the system saves time and money as well. "We're not spilling fluid or accidentally pulling the patient's catheter out, because we aren't having to stop and exchange bottles," says Moravia Costanza, TMC Ultrasound Department Supervisor. "One of our radiologists said the STREAMWAY System is worth its weight in gold."
Skyline Medical is now working to make these benefits available in more countries. In November, the company partnered with two independent distributors to sell the Streamway System to medical centers in Canada and Switzerland. Furthermore, the company's international marketing program extended its reach into Australia, New Zealand, Fiji Islands, and Pacific Islands with a distribution deal with Device Technologies Australia PTY LTD, a major distributor of advanced medical equipment.
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SOURCE: CEOCFO Magazine