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SAN ANTONIO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Use of an extended-dwell borderline IV catheter to abate costs and admission accommodating affirmation and abundance will be the accountable of several affiche and articulate presentations at the accessible Anniversary Scientific Affair of the Association for Vascular Admission (AVA). The affair will be captivated Oct. 16-19 in San Antonio, Texas.

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The presentations beset use of a power-injectable, extended-dwell borderline IV alleged the POWERWAND® at three altered hospitals.

The POWERWAND can be acclimated both for the administering of fluids/medications and for abandoning claret for analytic tests. It is the aboriginal and alone power-injectable borderline IV catheter able of carrying connected IV analysis for the patient’s absolute breadth of hospital stay.

The accessory may be larboard in abode for up to 29 canicule per its FDA clearance. The catheter, which at 3.1 inches in breadth is technically a midline, is amid application the proprietary Accelerated Seldinger Technique.

A affiche from Las Palmas Medical Center (El Paso, Texas) will detail how the hospital adopted POWERWAND as an another to PICCs for patients who did not charge riskier axial lines. Las Palmas hoped to abate the cardinal of patients with PICCs because those curve accept a abundant college amount of bloodstream infections than midlines.

Las Palmas additionally hoped to abate costs by eliminating accidental axial lines, because axial line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) are big-ticket to treat, are about not reimbursed, and add decidedly to patients’ length-of-stay.

The POWERWAND essentially bargain CLABSIs and occlusions at Las Palmas, absolutely eliminating them in the aboriginal bristles months of 2012. During the aforementioned period, by comparison, three CLABSIs and three occlusions occurred in PICC lines.

The hospital projected anniversary accumulation of $233,157 due to lower actual costs and abhorred infection-treatment costs.

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A additional affiche will alarm how Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital-Fort Worth accomplished both analytic and banking improvements by application the POWERWAND in abode of a accepted borderline IV (PIV) back appropriate. The accessory helped the hospital accommodated its goals in assorted ways:

* It added accommodating abundance and nursing ability because PIVs generally crave assorted needlesticks, and the midline had a aerial amount of first-attempt success.

* It bigger accommodating affirmation by eliminating CLABSIs during the balloon period.

* It added revenues for the hospital’s IV aggregation by accretion billable procedures 10%. (PIVs are not billable for a PICC aggregation but midlines are.)

* It adored actual costs and added added nursing ability because 79% of the midlines lasted through the achievement of therapy, and nurses were able draw claret through 84% of the midlines up to the time of catheter removal.

The POWERWAND will additionally be the accountable of two articulate presentations by Teresa Darst, RN, BSN, VA-BC, Director of Vascular Admission at Huguley Memorial Medical Center, in Burleson, Texas.

On Wednesday, Oct. 17 at 2:15 p.m., Darst will advance a blemish affair blue-blooded “Initial Outcomes Application a Novel, Power-Injectable 3.1” Midline Catheter.” On Thursday, Oct. 18 at 4:30 p.m. she will action the Showcase Presentation “Elevating the Accepted of Care in Borderline Venous Access: The POWERWAND.”

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Access Scientific will be at Booth 207 in the Exhibit Hall of the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center.

Resources:

Video:

POWERWAND advisory video

Text:

Study Shows POWERWAND Achieves Unprecedented Success for IV Therapy

Hospital Reports Aerial Accommodating Satisfaction with POWERWAND

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About Admission Scientific

Access Scientific, Inc., a abreast captivated medical accessory company, is committed to accouterment a safer accepted of vascular admission through its proprietary WAND® technology. ASI’s aggregation of acclimatized device-company veterans is focused on convalescent accommodating and healthcare artisan affirmation through the aggregate of superb design/engineering and burdensome affection assurance. The WAND was developed by the aforementioned Venetec International aggregation that invented StatLock® catheter stabilization accessories and fabricated them the common standard.

For added information, go to www.The-Wand.com, email Customer Service at PCook@the-wand.com, or alarm 858-259-8333.

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