Product Page
- Safety Brochure Marvelous
- Marvelous whitepaper
- Marvelous tips
- Marvelous new clinical evidence
- Closed Swabbable Stopcock product page
- Safe2 Rotator™ product page
- S2R™ - Challenges of luer connectors in IV Therapy
- Safeport™ Manifold
- NIP Needlefree Connector
- Clear-IT™ (Closed Blood Sampling System)
- Clear-IT™ Flushing study
Articles
Infection control
- Making Health Care Safer II
- Intravascular Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infection
- What is the predominant source of intravascular catheter infections?
- Central line-associated Bloodstream Infections (CLABSI)
- Guidelines for the Prevention of Intravascular Catheter-Related Infections.
- Marvelous™ - Elcam Medical’s Innovative Minimal Residual Volume Luer-Activated Stopcock
- Reducing the Risk of Stopcock Colonization in the OR and ICU with Marvelous™
Needlestick injury
- Hazards - Needlestick/Sharps Injuries
- World Health Organization - preventing needlestick injuries
- American Nurses Association – Safe Needles Save Lifes – fact sheet
- Workbook for Designing, Implementing and Evaluating a Sharps Injury Prevention Program *by the CDC.*
- Needleless connectors:Improving patient care while keeping healthcare professionals safe; *INFUSION January/February 2018, Barbara McElroy, MSN, CRNI, OCN*
Medication errors & drug incompatibility
Exposure to Blood and Drugs
- Underreporting of blood and body fluid exposures among health care students and trainees in the acute care setting: a 2007 survey.
- 2009 EPINet Report: Blood and Body Fluid Exposures. International Healthcare Worker Safety Center University of Virginia
- NIOSH List of Antineoplastic and Other Hazardous Drugs in Healthcare Settings, 2014.
Air embolism, Disconnections and Misconnections
- Vascular air embolism
- SPEAKING OF STANDARDS: Reducing the Risk of Air Embolism
- Venous Air Embolism
- Managing Luer Connections *apsf Newsletter, Bruce C. Hansel, PhD, CCE, Volume 36, No. 3 • October 2021*
- Luer Connector Misconnections: Under-Recognized but Potentially Dangerous Events; A Patient Safety Webcast Sponsored by FDA’s; *MedSun KidNet Subnetwork; November 19, 2008.*
- ISO 80369-1:2018 Small-bore connectors for liquids and gases in healthcare applications * Part 1: General requirements Published (Edition 2, 2018)*
Anasthesia Safety
- World Health Organization: Safe Surgery
- Nearly 40 million anesthesia procedures conducted each year in the USA alone.
- Medication Safety: An Important APSF Initiative Revisited
- Medication safety in the operating room: literature and expert-based recommendations.
- Adverse Drug Events: Incidence & risk reduction across the care continuum.
- Evaluation of perioperative medication errors and adverse drug events.
