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Polar Care: a cold therapy device used as a cooling system to reduce swelling and decrease pain to patients who had just undergone surgery.

This device can be use easily. A polar care has a bucket full of ice and water anf a hose that has a motor on the other end to suck and circulate fluid to the cooling pad, where the pad is applied to body of the patient.

Setup is pretty simple and easy to use. I have seen lots of patients who use it after surgery and it helped them alot in terms of pain management and decreasig swelling.

 The principle behind its use to patients is that by application of cold matter decreases in size so as the blood vessels which in turn decreases bleeding and in inflammation it decreases swelling, as well decrease pain perception since cold can divert attention from sensation of pain as well cold decreases release of chemical mediators for pain, but prolonged treatment of cold also poise danger to patients like hypothermia, ischemia, and pain.

 Polar Care is helpful and efficient but if you don’t have it you can use the traditional Ice Pack and that will do.

PICC (pheripherally Inserted Catheter) usally inserted for long term use especially if the patient will go home with IV medicine, its the same with TLC (Triple Lumen Catheter) where patients can take it home but its so seldom for patients to go home with it. PICC line can be inserted by IV Nurses while TLC can only be inserted by MD’s sometimes under flouroscopy(with aid of xray monitor) While most IV nurses insert PICC with the use of ultrasound. Some MD’s insert TLC by blind shot, that MD must be good! The advantage about these lines is that it can help medical professionals especially nurses in drawing blood and giving medications without problem.

 Thanks to these lines this makes the life of nurses too, especially if the patient is obese, edematous, and hard stick. Just imagine yourself being stuck everyhour for blood draws and IV restarts? thats tough and hard work. So its better to have those lines on patients.

 Both lines are easy to manage but TLC is more dangerous and PICC is lesser  but could be dangerous too. CAre for these lines shoudl be meticulouse too you should clean them before using and load it with heparin to prevent from quiting.

I will review your hospital products, gadgets, electronics, etc for free or for fee.

I like to review hospital products or gadgets, though I am not paid but I think it will be exciting if some company out there would want me to review thier product for a fee I would gladly do it but I can also review products for free. for now I am not for a fee b/c I am not noted for doing it but if somebody our there would let me review their hospital product for free or for fee I would gladly do it and even do it couple of times since I have lots of idle time.

 I am a nurse in a large medical center and If you  can send me your product for use in our unit that I think will help me formulate the review. 

 For now I’m content reviewing hospital products on our unit. Wating for your product for me to review.

One of my patient last night was a new LVAD implanted patient like 7 days ago and I am surprised at how the LVAD machine sound. I cant hear any squeky bearing or something inside anymore. Its just that I can’t believe the way it sounds. Maybe it became so ifficient that its more quiet than the pld LVAD’s I have taken care of. I don’t know why he got an LVAD, his age is not transplantable anymore. This patient has an end stage CHF and LV is non compliant maybe and maybe because the relatives and significant otheres are so optimistic of patients’ recovery that they persuade the MD to do everything and maybe they got what it takes to sustain a patient on an LVAD, that ,made the MD’s decide to place an LVAD on that patient. I don’t know if he is transplantable but to my knowledge and reading he is past borderline.

Anyway LVAD’s are lifesavers for patients who are cardio-pulmonary compromized. i’ve seen lots of patients on it and they had a nice and fruitful life. I have this patient before he is really really sick that he cannot walk,   short of breath though resting with multiple liters of Oxygen going and you can say he would die in a week… but you know what after a month of having the LVAD on him he was able to walk gradully and I did’nt even knew that he is a funny man, adn good man. When he was discharged he was walking  withoud difficulty.

It’s fascinating isn’t it? I hope one day LVAD will go nano too.

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Tube system used in hospitals is one great invention. Makes transfer of specimen from nurses unit to lab, and pharmacy meds to nurses stations and vice versa… fast and convenient.

Actually they are just using it in the hospitals they also use on drive thru banking system. have you noticed that tube where you place your withdrawal slip and it comes back with your money on it. And thats the tube system that Im talking about. And that makes life easier right?

Well for us, nurses, It just makes our life easier.

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BioZ for Cardiac Output and Cardiac Index parameters

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Is an invasive device that is used in hospitals to get the Cardiac Output and Cardiac Index of the patient. Where conventionally these parameters are usually taken using catheters that is situated inside a patients heart.

 Its just like taking a 12lead EKG with a blood pressure cuff attach to the patient. Its reliable, quick, easy, and convenient for floor nurses and tele nurses to take CO and CI parameters.

—yet rarely used.

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Exergen Infrared Thermometer was introduced to my unit at Baylor University Medical Center, 10R like 5months ago…

This new device can take temperature in less than 5 seconds and its very quick and it is run by battery. One time all of those Exergen Temporal Scanner Thermometer run out of battery. So we have to call Engineering to replace batteries. Anyway these new device is great especially for big medical center where time is limited and it takes temerature fast!

for those who do not know how to use this all you have to do is press and hold the scan button and pass the infrared probe to their temporal artery and Subclavian arterym, then release the button and check your monitor for temperature reading. Thats how quickly done.

While if you use your traditional oral digital thermoter it takes some time to take the temperature. But we still use it for verifying Exergen’s Temporal Thermometer.