RECENT PRODUCT NEWS

With BioGlue and HemoStase, CRYOLIFE offers safe, simple and effective solutions to meet a surgeon’s product needs in procedures – ranging from the most diffuse bleeding situation to the most complex cardiovascular procedure.

FANNIN UK incorporates four divisions – including GU Surgical, Anaesthesia and CritCare. The company will be exhibiting its range of quality, reusable GU Surgical Instrumentation on its stand.

MEDICAL INNOVATIONS will be exhibiting the innovative Flexislide transfer slide sheet and the Mediwrap high protection blanket system.

The comfort and security of STRYKER’s hospital beds, theatre trolleys and patient stretchers have helped make the company an industry leader in patient handling equipment.

Following the publication of the NHS Information Centre’s NHS vacancy statistics, Dr Peter Carter, chief executive of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), has warned that the pressure on NHS nurses in the face of rising vacancies will be unsustainable.

British operating theatre equipment specialist, ANETIC AID, will be exhibiting its highly manoeuvrable, lightweight QA3 variable height patient trolley and QA4 surgery trolley system at AfPP.

BIOCOTE will be exhibiting alongside Dyson, CFM and Protomed. BioCote works with leading healthcare manufacturers to offer a wide range of equipment, instruments and furniture that have built-in antimicrobial protection.

LISCLARE is the sole distributor for Silentia ward screens. The innovative, hard surface design makes them easy to clean, and cosmetically pleasing.

New EU guidelines to protect health workers from sharps injuries have been announced. It is expected that before the end of the year, hospitals across the EU will be legally obliged to take action to prevent needlestick injuries to their staff.

International training centre, EASTWOOD PARK – which specialises in healthcare, engineering and facilities management training – will be promoting its extensive and fast-growing decontamination and infection control training portfolio, including its latest decontamination lead course.

2. BRAUN MEDICAL, a member of the B. Braun Group, will be exhibiting:

Two of the winners of the NHS programme Smart Solutions for Healthcareassociated Infections are among the SUNLIGHT CLINICAL SOLUTIONS products to be exhibited at the event.

ENTURIA is part of the infection prevention arm of CareFusion. Its focus is on the development, manufacturing and distribution of science-rich products that deliver “basically better health”.

The TEAL stand will feature an award winning range of portable hot water hand wash units.

CARDINAL HEALTH offers a wide range of infection prevention products – including the Esteem surgical gloves range, Convertors disposable drapes made from the company’s impervious Tiburon fabric, and its latest technology – Smart gowns.

EXTRAMED is an innovative and dynamic eHealth consultancy and software development house based in Edinburgh. ExtraMed’s real-time Patient Flow Management Suite is already producing demonstrable benefits in many hospitals around the UK.

PH HEALTHCARE, a recently announced joint venture between BM Polyco and HPC Healthline UK, will introduce the new company set up and its product range of medical gloves.

Founded in 1999, HYGIENICS BIOSECURITY is now a market leader in the provision of biodecontamination services.

Manufacturing simple to use, easy to train medical devices that prevent the risk of infection is central to OWEN MUMFORD’s company philosophy.

VERNACARE UK will highlight its theme of “progress through innovation” on its stand, where delegates can view a full-size prototype of the company’s “easy clean” new porter’s chair – part of the Design Bugs Out challenge.