Reblog: Clinical Highlight: Chidamoyo Hospital

Chidamoyo Hospital is a 100 bed private facility in northern Zimbabwe offering a full range of services, including maternity, pediatrics, orthopedics and outpatient care. They have served a catchment of 35,000 people for over 35 years, building a reputation as an innovative healthcare facility that is raising the bar for patient care. Despite its rural…

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Reblog: Bridging the gap for patient safety needs during intravenous infusions

DripAssist usability study from Madigan Army Medical Center presented at WA ACEP When it comes to thinking about how people around the world receive healthcare, we need to remember that patients receive care from all kinds of clinicians: doctors, nurses, medics, midwives and others. That means when Shift Labs builds products, we design them so…

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DripAssist for Prolonged Field Care

DripAssist is finding its way into new and exciting spheres of medicine – combat critical care. Shift Labs was delighted to participate in a recent prolonged field care exercise in conjunction with the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences’ Department of Military and Emergency Medicine. “Gunpowder” is a highly resourced and orchestrated training exercise for…

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Safe, Effective Canine Blood Transfusions

Challenges and Solutions: Veterinarians and veterinary technicians administer canine blood transfusions when treating many conditions, from tissue hypoxia and immune-mediated hemolytic anemia to decreased erythrocyte production1. Despite being a common and vital procedure, there is debate among veterinary clinicians surrounding the safest and most effective administration methods for blood products to ensure patients receive the full…

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Disaster Preparedness and Medication Administration- CaseStudy

When the lights go out, so does critical IV infusion equipment. Prepping for Power Failure In 2012, Tropical Storm Sandy created a widespread outage covering Lower Manhattan and leaving over 250,000 people without power. During the outrage, two high volume Manhattan hospitals, NYU Langonw Medical Center and Bellevue Hospital, experienced back-up generator failures that forced…

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DripAssist for Safer Labor and Delivery in Haiti

Clinical Highlight: Haitian Maternity Wards Private and Non-Profit Obstetric Wards,| Port-AU-Prince, Haiti “As a center where we do deliveries and don’t have a large staff, DripAssist ensures that the patients are getting the correct dose of solutions. The device acts as another staff that will never sleep and always be present.” Community Clinic Medical Director,…

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DripAssist Infusion Rate Monitor

Get reliable, affordable Continuous Monitoring for your gravity infusion. Traditional Gravity Infusion(Unmonitored) DripAssist(Continously Monitored) Setting a Drip Rate Clinician must count drops and calculate drip rate when setting up and checking drips, which can take up to a minute or more several times per infusion. DripAssist automatically counts and calculates drip rate as the clinician…

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DripAssist Veterinary Infusion Rate Monitor

Make every drop count in your canine blood transfusions. DripAssist turns your gravity drip set into a powerful transfusion tool that combines the highest level of cell viability with continuous and precise monitoring. DripAssist helps you accurately monitor the rate and volume of RBC tranfusions without a pump. [well type=””] Transfusion by pump or syringe…

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Using DripAssist to Improve Chemotherapy Delivery

A new, cost-effective approach to outpatient infusion care with DripAssist In outpatient infusion care environments with high patient loads, affordable and effective medication administration can be a challenge. Providers worldwide, ranging from oncology centers to rheumatology practices, use the DripAssist Infusion Rate Monitor as a cost effective solution for safe, accurate IV infusion management. DripAssist…

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