Med One Blog

By Ibby Smith Stofer

As we begin the new year, we face changes in our personal healthcare choices, and those who provide care are also seeing many significant changes. Looking at the effects of COVID-19 on individual lives, healthcare providers, and suppliers shows just how many things have changed in a relatively short timeframe.

When a patient is coping with a severe injury or illness, things can take a turn for the worse very quickly. Unfortunately, because the average doctor or nurse looks after so many patients at once, there is a chance that staff may not be in the room the moment things go badly. In this instance, having functional monitoring devices can be a matter of life and death. That is why equipping your hospital with the different types of patient monitoring devices is critical for patient safety.

By Dani Vaughan

The topic of medical ventilators is one that has gained more attention and curiosity over the past year due to COVID-19. They are lifesaving tools that are used to help treat a variety of respiratory illnesses. How do they actually work? What are the different types of ventilators? What types of patients need a ventilator? What is it like being on a ventilator? We take a closer look at these lifesaving devices to gain a better understanding of what they do.

Healthcare providers may perform IV therapy to combat excessive blood or fluid loss, administer pain medication, or a plethora of other reasons. Because it is such a common occurrence, healthcare providers must follow all the best practices for using IV tubing. This includes spiking and priming tubing correctly. Although it’s a small part of the process, the importance of priming your IV tubing cannot be overstated.

By Bryson Cutler

We recently sat down with Doug Green, Senior Vice President Director of Corporate Development at Med One, for his Industry Insights spotlight. In this interview, we explore how strategic partnerships with an equipment leasing company can help medical device vendors sell more equipment. Doug considers himself the "Med One Story Teller" and loves to talk about the two stars in our story: health care providers that are committed to deliver outstanding care to their patients and our vendor partners who help them acquire the equipment they need.

Providing quality patient care is not only about having the proper medical equipment, it’s about using the equipment effectively. Part of knowing how to use medical equipment to your advantage is understanding all of its applications, features, and modes. There are several different modes on a ventilator, for instance, that can provide various types of respiratory care depending on the type and stage of treatment that a patient requires.

In the past, home health care has mostly referred to doctors or nurses visiting patients in the home regularly. Although this is still an applicable definition, recent advances in remote patient monitoring technology have given this term a whole new meaning. And this new meaning is revolutionizing how patients receive healthcare.

There are few things more important during surgery than a surgeon being able to clearly see the patient they are operating on. Visibility in the operating room is of vital importance, and suction pumps help with this function when performing a surgery. These suction pumps may also be used to carry fluid away from the lungs for those suffering from lung infections or those unable to bring fluid up through coughing.

There are only a few sights more common in a hospital than infusion pumps. They stand as silent sentinels at patient bedsides providing life-saving fluids and medications to those with critical injuries, illnesses, or those with debilitating conditions. Because of their essential nature, finding the means to acquire these devices is necessary for providing the highest quality patient care. Read ahead for reasons to rent infusion pumps.

Medical equipment that malfunctions or no longer functions can spell disaster for patients in vulnerable situations. This is especially true of patients placed on respiratory ventilators. For that reason, it isn't enough to simply lease or purchase quality equipment. Performing proper preventative maintenance of ventilators is essential to ensuring respiratory patients receive the critical care they need to make a full recovery.