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Articles in April, 2008 issue of Healthcare Purchasing News

• New CDC study underscores impact of older adult falls
• Surgical instrument repair, sharpening and restoration: Spectrum Surgical Instruments Corp
• Getinge
• Complying with regulations; essential AAMI documents
  by Ray Taurasi
• Patient wristbands
• Theater disguised as policy not even good theater
  by Rick Dana Barlow
• Remembering my friend Shaya
  by Fred W. Crans
• Endozime InstruSponge channel cleaner: Ruhof
• Weighing glove options: a balance of safety, comfort and costs
  by Jeannie Akridge
• Waste disposal cost management
• The Wild West of vendor representative credentialing
  by David Hermann
• Cosmetic products may cause fatal infections in critically ill patients
• Skytron
• EnteroPro: Olympus
• Mobile computing carts
• Boxed in or open door? Modularity among tracking modes possible but not probable right now
  by Rick Dana Barlow
• FDA releases container system integrity testing in lieu of sterility guidelines
• Hanna steers course of CS covered wagon: no 'golden oldie,' new IAHCSMM approaches future with renewed vigor
  by Rick Dana Barlow
• Cattail channel brushes: Cygnus
• Converting to a latex-free glove can be close at hand
  by Keith Kuchta
• Hydrophilic coated guidewire
• Progressive fiscal thinkers connecting the dollars: materials, pharmacy managers strive to link both sides of balance sheet
  by Rick Dana Barlow
• EmPower: Metrex
• Waste reduction: ways to get leaner and greener in the SPD
  by Julie E. Williamson
• Surface disinfection
• Tissue welding technology maximizes efficiency, cuts costs, improves outcomes
• America's 50 best hospitals 2008 released by HealthGrades
• Renovating the surgical suite reaps sweet rewards
  by Susan Cantrell
• Applied Logic
• Regulatory update: EPA emission standard for hospital EO sterilizers
  by Susan Flynn
• Decontamination gloves
• Zero waste must be your goal: supply chain managers can make a huge impact by eliminating waste in 8 areas
  by Robert T. Yokl
• K-C has kicked off its "Not on My Watch" prevention campaign
• Save time and reduce errors: InnerSpace
• ChemDAQ
• IAHCSMM, ASHCSP merger completed
• Implantable medical devices may expose patients to security, privacy risks
• Fast stats
• Unique cath-labs give patients control over environment to help ease anxiety
• Advanced sterilization products
• Antimicrobial hand hygiene products: the choice is yours
  by Jeanne Medvick
• Sterilizable active RFID RTLS asset tag
• Letters
  by Donal E. White
• SafetySurveillor continuously detects, monitors HAIs via Web-based application
• Raven
• Deep bin transfer cart: IRSG
• Decontamination gloves
• Worth repeating
• Medline and 3M agree to partnership in electrosurgery
• Integra Surgical
• Turning waste into energy
• Storage system
• Ees sgniht yltnereffid: "see things differently"
  by Linda Robinson