ProShield Endoscope & TEE Probe Protection System

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ProShield Components

• Tubes to fit each device type

• Various brackets to strategically place devices in the best possible place

• Tubes containing devices quickly snap in and out of the brackets

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Device Types Accommodated• TEE Probes

• Optical Endoscopes

• Digital Endoscopes

• Bronchoscopes, Upper GI, ENT, Urology

• Colonoscope version under development

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Brackets for all locations

• Wall Mount in OR, ER, ICU, Reprocessing, or Central Locations

• Cart & Existing Cabinet mounting

• Equipment Booms, OR Tables, IV Poles, Work Benches

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Multiple Benefits

• Improved Patient Care & Experience• Transport, Handling & Storage Improvements• Cross Contamination Reduced – Clean & Dirty• Eliminate Delayed Reprocessing problems• Reduce overall cost of Endoscopy Procedures• Improved Device Inventory Management

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Improved Patient Care & Experience

• Awake Patients see a clean protected device

• Pre-Procedure devices Protected from Contamination and damage

• Post-Procedure devices are contained & device soaking begins bedside

• No Canceled or Delayed cases due to Broken, Missing or misplaced Endoscopes

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Transport, Handling & Storage Improved

• Meet JCAHO Guideline – No device shanks touching

• Keep devices straight – Reduce bending stress damage

• Safely carry both clean & dirty devices - ER, ICU, Bedside

• Visual Inventory – Devices & status in plain sight at all times

• Stop inadvertent Damages – Pinches, Impact, Falling from cart

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Cross Contamination Reduced

• Improved Staff safety handling dirty devices

• Patient safety improved with clean device protection

• Clean / Dirty Label Clearly indicates device status

• Latent Bio-films reduced by immediate & continued soaking

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Eliminate Delayed Reprocessing• 50% of device damage results

from aggressive cleaning of hardened bio-mass

• Begin soaking at any bedside, continue soaking until reprocessing procedure starts

• If reprocessing queue is backed up, devices stay in plain sight, clipped on wall & remain soaking

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Reduce Overall Endoscopy Costs

• Cleaning times are reduced

• Cleaning & Handling Damages are Minimized

• Reduced Liability of Patient Cross Contamination

• Improved Worker and Staff Safety

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Improved Device Inventory Management

• Clean / Dirty Status is Apparent from a distance

• Devices never fall prey to "Out-of-Sight Out-of-mind“

• There is ALWAYS a safe place for the device.

• Damage from over-coiling is eliminated

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Recognized Value – Current Users

• Surgical Products Magazine

• 2012 Product of the Year

• Infection Control

• Stanford Univ LP Childrens

• Partners Health – Brigham & Womens

• Cleveland Clinic

• Yale New Haven Hospital

• Duke Medical Center

• Harvard – Beth Israel Deaconess

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