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Vascular PRN President Recognizes Deep Vein Thrombosis Awareness Month

March is Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) awareness month. Between 300,000 and 600,000 people in the U.S. are affected by DVT or pulmonary embolism (PE) each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Greg Grambor is president…

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Breakthrough Technology: Deep Vein Thrombosis Prevention Now Portable

Tampa, FL — (SBWIRE) — 01/29/2014 — A remarkable new portable vascular compression system weighs only one pound and offers a 17-hour battery life. Typically, vascular compression devices applied to prevent deep vein thrombosis (DVT) are 10- to 15-pound calibrated…

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Nursing Home Sued After Bed Sore Leads to Leg Amputation

Tampa, FL (Law Firm Newswire) – The family of a man whose infected leg was amputated filed suit against his nursing home. John Eric Rush, 49, alleged that staff negligence led to an infected bed sore on his left heel. The…

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PolyGel Portable Device for DVT Therapy Helps Patients Be Compliant After Surgery

Major surgical procedures are events where medical staff must be reminded that certain patients can be at higher risk for deep vein thrombosis and venous thromboembolism. Postphlebitic syndrome and pulmonary embolisms can occur in the hours, days, and weeks after…

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Long Surgeries Necessitate Better Therapeutic Surfaces for Patient Skin Integrity

A recent study in the Association of Perioperative Registered Nurses (AORN) Journal shows that patients can develop pressure ulcers when a surgery lasts more than three hours. How the patient is positioned, the table surface, and skin integrity all play…

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Big Spike in Knee Surgeries Calls for Compression Therapy Devices to Lessen Risk of Blood Clots

New statistics show a big increase in knee replacement surgery since the late 1990s. From 1997 to 2009, knee surgery increased for women ages 45 to 64 by 157 percent and men in the same range by 144 percent. The…

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New Approaches to Lessen Symptoms After a Blood Clot Discussed By Vascular PRN

Recent news headlines continue to show how people are affected every day by blood clots. The University of Nebraska head women’s basketball coach, leading athletes, and even teens have been the latest people to experience blood clots. Without warning, these…

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New Skin IQ™ Coverlet Helps Nursing Home Administrators Cut Costs

Directors of nursing homes are preparing for big decreases in Medicare reimbursements that begin October 1. Medicare rates will lessen by 11.1 percent, which is making nursing home operators and administrators look for every opportunity to cut costs to make…

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How do you fill a prescription for “booties”?

The doc writes “compression booties” on the script. OH NO! What do you do? Where do you turn? Long Term Care facilities often struggle to fill a prescription for “booties”. Sometimes referred to as “scud boots”, (for Sequential Compression Device…

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