New Scope Links to Image-Guidance Systems
Facilities that do neurosurgery, ENT and spine surgery with image-guidance systems may be able to make preparation and procedures more efficient with the Leica M500 OH3. Perioperative setup is easy. An auto-balance system balances all six axes with two pushes of a button. The system's overhead design and low weight (around 266 kg.) allow for easy positioning and mobility. The Leica Intelligent Set-Up System lets you store up to eight customized configurations. During the procedure, when combined with an Image Guidance System computer, the stand's robotic capability lets the M500 OH3 ($220,000 to $250,000) follow the surgeon's hand instruments.

Leica Microsystems
800.248.0123
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Safer supplies
Standardize your procedure trays with latex-free products with the Latex-free Standard Procedure Trays from Maxxim Medical. Maxxim offers seven trays, including an arthroscopy tray, basic set-up tray, quick start tray, standard basin tray and single basin tray. The trays start at $8.

Maxxim Medical
800.346.8849
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All-in-one oximetry
For convenient, cost-effective oximetry, consider the Nonin ipod, the first pulse oximeter and reusable adult finger clip sensor combined into one self-contained unit. To add oximetry to your new or existing monitor all you have to do is plug it in and go. Contact Nonin Medical for a price.

Nonin Medical
800.356.8874
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Spill solutions
You may be able to make messy fluid cleanup easier with three new products from Health Care Logistics, Inc., Absorbent Pads, Absorbent Powder and the Spill Clean-Up Kit. Use the Absorbent Pads to wipe up spilled fluids. They can absorb 350 mL of fluid into a safe infection-contained gel. The pads are available in packages of 50. The Absorbent Powder converts fluid into a gel and also reduces odor, the company says. Each bottle contains 250 grams of powder; 10 grams of powder will absorb 1 liter of water or 0.9% saline. The Spill Clean-Up Kit contains everything you need to efficiently dispose of blood or other bodily fluids, the company says.

Health Care Logistics, Inc.
800.848.1633
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A Better Brush?
A new product from Spectrum Surgical lets you clean and dry your flexible endoscopes with the same brush. The Clean-N-Dry double-ended brush from Spectrum Surgical has both a 2.8-3.7-mm cleaning brush and a foam swab. The brush end is used for cleaning scopes with 2.8-mm to 3.7-mm channels and has a silicone tip for better navigation. The foam end is used to dry the channel. A three-pack of brushes costs $19.99.

Spectrum Surgical Instruments
800.444-5644
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Faster scope reprocessing
Now you can reprocess endoscopes in an automatic endoscope reprocessor in just five minutes with Cidex OPA Solution from Advanced Sterilization Products. The FDA recently approved the change. Your reprocessor must heat the solution to a minimum of 25'C in order to use the new faster time; most recent models do so. You can still use the solution for manual processing and in automatic endoscope reprocessors that cannot maintain a temperature of 25'C, but the soaking time needs to be 12 minutes rather than five.

Advanced Sterilization Products
877.OPA.NOWW
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Measure phaco incisions
Help surgeons monitor wound stretch rates during cataract cases with Rhein Medical's new incision gauge. Surgeons measure the incision both peri-operatively and post-operatively to determine how much the wound has stretched during the procedure. The gauge blades range from 2.5 mm to 4 mm, increasing by 100-micron increments. Call Rhein for prices.

Rhein Medical
813.885.5050
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A safer sling?
Surgeons may be able to prevent retention and erosion after surgical treatment of female stress urinary incontinence with Caldera Medical's new T-Sling with Centrasorb. The sling is placed at the level of the bladder neck under the urethral pelvic ligament. It has two polypropylene sections connected by Centrasorb, a completely absorbable central portion, which is absorbed after 100 days. Contact Caldera Medical for pricing information.

Caldera Medical
866.4.CALDERA
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