Re-printed from Practice Greenhealth website https://practicegreenhealth.org/topics/greening-operating-room/greening-or   Operating rooms can drive big facilities’ cost savings and efficiency improvements through smart, incremental, sustainable practices. Even more important, it’s possible to make these changes while not only maintaining quality patient care but also supporting staff and environmental health. Though a tiny percentage of a hospital’s total physical […]

Status is reachable   David Gomez  Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA), CEO/CTO of Infinitus Medical Technologies (iMT), and Patient Positioning Process Ninja!1mo Did you know billions of dollars are wasted every year, and to the detriment of the planet as it relates to plastic goods, simply due to a significant design flaw in a long standing medical […]

Going GREEN in the operating room July 14, 2016 |Pemco Incorporated     Reusable Instrument Benefits Continue to Outweigh Disposables When compared with disposable versions, the Pemco reusable coronary cannulas and hand-held suckers have been proven to be the most cost-effective and environmentally sound solution in the OR. First year savings can easily reach into the thousands of […]

Helping the Littlest Hearts   October 4, 2016     In October 1965, the American College of Chest Physicians printed an article titled “Experimental and Clinical Studies of Miniaturized Disc Oxygenator for Infants” Basically, the first proof that a heart bypass machine could be used on newborn infants so that surgeons could fix congenital heart […]