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When it comes to administering IV fluids to patients, it is every healthcare provider’s goal to protect patients from the risks associated with IVs, with infection being a primary concern. Considering this goal, everything is done to give patients the best chance of recovery. Following best practices for changing IV tubing gives patients that chance for a quick and healthy recovery.

By Ibby Smith Stofer

I invite you to do a communication styles assessment with me to reveal your style and maybe your age.

To begin, please close your eyes and try to empty your mind for these few moments. I promise this is nothing like those shows where you are hypnotized and embarrassed when you find out what you did. PROMISE!

One of the values most often attributed to the medical field is the aspiration to “do no harm” to any patient. However, despite the best efforts of medical facilities, many potential hazards can get in the way of patient health and safety. To create effective strategies to increase patient safety, facilities must identify and address these hazards.

By Dani Vaughan

In the next video of our Med One Industry Insights series, we sat down and talked medical equipment rental with Brad Johnson. As the SVP and General Manager of Equipment Rental, he was able to bring some unique perspectives about the benefits of renting equipment and the benefits of having Med One as a rental partner.

Innovation is critical in the medical field. With its help, we can find new ways to meet a whole host of patient needs. Without innovation, however, we stagnate or become ineffective. This is true of strategies and procedures, but also the equipment medical staff use to treat patients. If you haven’t assessed your equipment recently, read through these primary reasons to update your medical equipment.

Those using enteral feeding pumps range from adults with esophageal cancer to premature newborns. Because there is such a wide variety of reasons and patients that use them, when it comes to feeding pumps, selecting sizes and setting feed rates is both a challenge and an absolute necessity.

Patient monitoring equipment provides quick displays of vital biometric patient data, including heart rate, blood pressure, temperature, and more. Without the ability to get a quick read of patient vitals, medical professionals can't respond quickly and correctly to a medical emergency with their patients. When looking to acquire monitoring equipment, different facilities will have various capacities to attain the necessary equipment. That is when facilities need to ask the question, is it better to lease or buy patient monitoring equipment?

By Dani Vaughan

CHOICE Humanitarian has its headquarters located in Salt Lake City, UT, but their work takes place in communities throughout the world. The work that happens within each country is managed by highly experienced directors and staffed by local volunteers. Their goal is to eliminate extreme poverty by working with and training community leaders to take ownership of their own development. Choice Humanitarian will work with these communities until they are self-sufficient and sustainable, then they will exit, and the community will continue to thrive.

With demand sky-high, medical facilities across the world are needing to purchase more respiratory ventilators than ever before. But the circumstances that have increased the demand have also forced medical personnel to take greater care in how they choose respiratory ventilators. While this list is far from all-encompassing, taking into account these qualities can help your facility begin to navigate this choice.

IV fluids are one of the most crucial parts of patient care when it comes to treating patients who need medications in their system quickly. However, because of the nature of IV medications and the fact that many patients often require multiple medications at once, distributing the wrong medication can be deadly. That is why knowing how to label IV tubing correctly is so incredibly important.