FOCUS: Journal for Respiratory Care Managers and Educators articles from January 2001, page 3

FOCUS: Journal for Respiratory Care Managers and Educators archives from January 2001

O2 TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
January 1, 2001... 11341-C Business Center Dr Richmond VA 23236 O2 Technologies sprung from Medical Technology Specialists (MTS), a home care equipment repair company, in 1996. MTS owner Donald Morrow realized there must be a better way to check oxygen...

OLYMPIC MEDICAL CORP.
January 1, 2001... 5900 First Avenue South Seattle WA 98108 Olympic Medical is North America's leading manufacturer of washer/pasteurizers, bio-clean dryers, and laminar flow worktables. Olympic Pasteurmatics, Sterile-Driers and Sterile-Tables are used...

OWENS BRIGAM MEDICAL COMPANY.
January 1, 2001... PO Box 1009 Morganton NC 28680 Owens-BriGam Medical Company is a vertically integrated manufacturer of high quality disposable products for anesthesia and respiratory care. The Owens-BriGam family of products includes two complete...

OXIGRAF, INC.
January 1, 2001... 1170 Terra Bella Avenue Mountain View CA 94043 If You Measure Oxygen, You Need Oxigraf. Oxigraf designs, manufactures, and supplies digital laser oxygen sensor technology for applications in medical, aerospace, research, and...

PALCO LABS.
January 1, 2001... 8030 Soquel Ave #100 Santa Cruz CA 95062 Palco Laboratories, Inc. has been offering affordable, state of the art cardiology and respiratory monitoring devices since 1990. Palco Labs' product line contains several small, portable pulse...

PALL MEDICAL.
January 1, 2001... 600 South Wagner Road Ann Arbor MI 48103 Pall Medical specializes in the development of the world's most technically advanced medical filtration devices for respiratory therapy, drug delivery, IV therapy, preparation of pharmaceutical...

PDS[SM] MEDICAL DIAGNOSTIC & INFORMATION SERVICES.
January 1, 2001... 224 Calvary Street Waltham MA 02453 Sleep disorders and pH test analysis and scoring for hospital and home care clients nationwide. PDS provides fast, accurate same day scoring and analysis of sleep disorders and pH tests for infants and...

PEGASUS RESEARCH CORPORATION.
January 1, 2001... 1714 South Lyon Street Santa Ana CA 92705 Pegasus Research Corporation designs and manufactures a full line of quality respiratory therapy products. The Thera-Mist [TM] product line features prooducts for all of your patient hydration...

PERCUSSIONAIRE CORP.
January 1, 2001... PO Box 817 Sandpoint ID 83864 Percussionaire [R] Corporation Sandpoint ID, USA offers Intrapulmonary Percussion Ventilation (IPV [R]) for the mobilization of retained endobronchial secretions and the resolution of atelectasis. IPV...

POSEY COMPANY.
January 1, 2001... 5635 Peck Road Arcadia CA 91006 Posey Company offers several valuable products for cardiopulmonary care. The Posey Cufflator is considered the preferred tracheal cuff inflator and manometer by thousands of respiratory therapists. Its...

PRAXAIR, INC.
January 1, 2001... 39 Old Ridgebury Road Danbury CT 06810-5113 Praxair produces, sells and distributes atmospheric, process, medical and specialty gases, as well as high-performance surface coatings. We're also a leading supplier of medical equipment and...

PRECISION MEDICAL.
January 1, 2001... 300 Held Drive Northampton PA 18067 Precision Medical is a leading manufacturer of respiratory products for the Hospital, Homecare and Fittings markets. We are large enough to supply your needs and small enough to react immediately to...

PULMONARY DATA SERVICES, INC.
January 1, 2001... 908 Main St Louisville CO 80027 Pulmonary Data Services Instrumentation, now a division of the Ferraris CardioRespiratory Group is a leading manufacturer of research quality cardiopulmonary diagnostic equipment including the KoKo...

PULMONETIC SYSTEMS, INC.
January 1, 2001... 930 S Mt. Vernon Ave #100 Colton CA 92324 Pulmonetic Systems, Inc. designs, manufactures and markets innovative products for Respiratory Care worldwide. Today's healthcare market has redefined innovation, requiring products to provide...

QUALITY OF LIFE, INC.
January 1, 2001... 4945 Timber Trail Minnetrista MN 55364 Quality of Life, Inc. makes and distributes accessories and products for the consumer who uses medical devices, particularly respiratory devices such as CPAP units. These accessories are sold direct...

RADIOMETER AMERICA INC.
January 1, 2001... 810 Sharon Drive Westlake OH 44145 For more than 40 years, Radiometer has developed, produced and serviced STAT-testing equipment of the highest analytical quality and reliability. The ABL[TM]700, adapted for all testing sites,...

RAYTECH INSTRUMENTS, INC.
January 1, 2001... 282 Montroyal Blvd North Vancouver BC V7N4E5 Raytech manufactures data acquisition and analysis systems for Respiratory/ICU research and ventilator evaluation. The Direc 201A 8-Channel Signal Conditioner/Recorder currently sets the...

RC MEDICAL, INC.
January 1, 2001... PO Box 833 Tolland CT 06084 RC Medical, Inc. represents leading manufacturers in the field of respiratory care. We are a small company and are eager to serve your needs. Our catalog is sent to every respiratory department twice a...

REIMERS SYSTEMS, INC.
January 1, 2001... 7668 Fullerton Road Suite 1-4 Springfield VA 22153 RSI was formed in 1994 by a group of experienced hyperbaric facility design professionals who had previously been in responsible charge of the design of over $30,000,000 in modern...

REN-LOR STETHOSCOPES (ULTRASCOPE).
January 1, 2001... Box 1034 Rooseveltown NY 13683-9998 The ULTRASCOPE stethoscope - the stethoscope taking the medical profession by storm! The Ultrascope was designed to obtain accurate sounds through layers of clothing or dressings even in the...

RESMED CORP.
January 1, 2001... 14040 Danielson Street Poway CA 92064-6857 ResMed is a leading developer, manufacturer, and marketer of medical equipment for the diagnosis and treatment of sleep-disordered breathing, selling a comprehensive range of products in over 50...

RESPIRONICS.
January 1, 2001... 1501 Ardmore Boulevard Pittsburgh PA 15221 Respironics, a recognized resource in the medical device market, provides innovative products and unique Power Programs[TM] designed to help health care providers grow and manage their business...

RMS, INC. (RESPIRATORY MANAGEMENT SERVICES).
January 1, 2001... 364 Adams Street Bedford Hills NY 10507 RMS offers a complete line of Medical Gas System services and products including: Nationwide Consulting Services for planned oxygen/medical gas shutdowns, emergency preparedness and system...

RNA MEDICAL.
January 1, 2001... 2 Craig Road Acton MA 01720 RNA Medical, a Division of Bionostics, Inc., offers QC materials for the blood gas laboratory. RNA's controls include blood gas, electrolyte, glucose, lactate, BUN, CO-oximetry and are available for AVL,...

ROCHE DIAGNOSTICS.
January 1, 2001... 9115 Hague Road Indianapolis IN 46250-0457 The Roche Group is a world leader in research-based health care with its principal business activities in pharmaceuticals, diagnostics and vitamins. Through the Company's Diagnostics Division,...

ROCHESTER ELECTRO-MEDICAL, INC.
January 1, 2001... 15619 Premiere Drive Suite 204 Tampa FL 33624 Rochester Electro-Medical, Inc. supplies the latest in NASAL/ORAL RESPIRATION MONITORS plus CHEST RESPIRATORY EFFORT BELTS. The reliable CARDIOPNEUMOGRAPH combines respiration and EGG on one...

ROZINN ELECTRONICS, INC.
January 1, 2001... 71-22 Myrtle Avenue Glendale NY 11385-7254 Rozinn - with more than 20 years in the Holter business - offers the broadest range of Holter products in the industry. Holter is the recording of EGG for 24 or 48 hours. * HOLTER ANALYSIS -...

RTTEMPS/RNTEMPS.
January 1, 2001... P.O. Box 404 Wayne PA 19087 RTTEMPS provides qualified Respiratory Therapy staff for short- or long-term assignments nationwide. Whatever your staffing needs, RTTEMPS can provide prescreened, fully licensed professionals when you need...

RUSCH, INC.
January 1, 2001... 2450 Meadowbrook Parkway Duluth GA 30096 RUSCH offers Respiratory Care Practitioners the products and services of a focused, customer-driven company, as well as the research depth and manufacturing precision of Teleflex, Inc., a...

SCHOOL OF SLEEP MEDICINE, INC.
January 1, 2001... 260 Sheridan Avenue Suite 100 Palo Alto CA 94306-2008 The School of Sleep Medicine, Inc. (SSM) Inc. is a member of The Stanford University Center of Excellence for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Sleep Disorders. SSM is globally...

SDI DIAGNOSTICS, INC.
January 1, 2001... 10 Hampden Drive Easton MA 02375 SDI Diagnostics, Inc. of Easton, Massachusetts, manufactures a wide variety of consumable products for spirometry and pulmonary function testing. SDI products are sold primarily through their...

SECHRIST INDUSTRIES, INC.
January 1, 2001... 4225 E. La Palma Avenue Anaheim CA 92807 Sechrist Industries, Inc. is a leading worldwide manufacturer of neonatal/infant/pediatric intensive care ventilators, hyperbaric chambers and air/oxygen mixers. Our products are sold each...

SENSORMEDICS.
January 1, 2001... 22705 Savi Ranch Pkwy Yarba Linda CA 92887 SensorMedics, a world leader for innovative medical technology used in the diagnosis and treatment of cardiopulmonary, sleep disordered and Critical Care medicine. The SensorMedics Vmax...

SEQUAL TECHNOLOGIES INC.
January 1, 2001... 11436 Sorrento Valley Road San Diego CA 92121 The IntegraTEN is a compact, bedside oxygen concentrator delivering up to 10LPM of oxygen, yet is no larger than standard five-liter units. Designed for high-flow patients, its output is...

SIEMENS MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
January 1, 2001... 16 Electronics Avenue Danvers MA 01923 Siemens Medical Systems, Inc. The Electromedical Systems Division of Siemens Medical Systems, Inc. is the sales and marketing headquarters for critical care, OR/anesthesia, and information...

SIMS BCI, INC.
January 1, 2001... N7 W22025 Johnson Road Waukesha WI 53186 SIMS BCI, Inc. SIMS, BCI Inc. is a designer, manufacturer and worldwide distributor of patient monitoring equipment. The SIMS, BCI Hand-Held Product Line consists of the Model 3301 Pulse...

SIMS PORTEX, INC.
January 1, 2001... 10 Bowman Drive Keene NH 03431 SIMS Portex, Inc. SIMS Portex Inc., an ISO-9001 certified manufacturer, offers a diverse product line and is the first choice of anesthesia, respiratory care, critical care, infection control, and...

SLEEPMATE TECHNOLOGIES.
January 1, 2001... One Park West Circle, Suite 301 Midlothian VA 23113 Trading under the Sleepmate brand, Sleepmate Technologies provides a full line of physiological sensors (thermal and pressure airflow, respiratory effort, snoring, UARS, limb...

STELLATE SYSTEMS.
January 1, 2001... 345 Victoria Ave Ste 300 Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3Z2N2 Stellate Systems brought you the first event detection algorithm for epilepsy monitoring. We bring you now the HARMONIE[TM] System for advanced polysomnographic recording and...

S.T.I. MEDICAL PRODUCTS CORP.
January 1, 2001... 1599 Superior Avenue #A-4 Costa Mesa CA 92627 STI Medical Products Corp. announces the release of the Improved Thomas[TM] Endotracheal - Nasogastric Tube Holder that is "Adhesive Free". The Thomas[TM] product provides off the face...

SUMMETRIC INTERACTIVE SOFTWARE, INC.
January 1, 2001... 310 North 2nd East Ste 154 Rexburg ID 83440 SUMMETRIC Interactive Software develops Competency Evaluation, Training, and Documentation Software for Allied Health Care professionals. Equipment training, Clinical Simulation, Basic...

SUNRISE MEDICAL INC. - DEVILBISS.
January 1, 2001... 7477 E. Dry Creek Pkwy Longmont CO 80503 Sunrise Medical is one of the world's largest manufacturers of homecare and extended care products. Our products improve people's lives in many ways: healing wounds, speeding recovery,...

SYNAPSE MEDIA, INC.
January 1, 2001... 4702 Cloud Crest Drive Medford OR 97504 Synapse Media, Inc. is a company dedicated to providing quality training and education in sleep medicine and technology, with special emphasis on laboratory methodology and clinical...

TELEDYNE ANALYTICAL INSTRUMENTS.
January 1, 2001... 16830 Chestnut Street City of Industry CA 91748 Offering customers a one-stop solution for all medical oxygen monitoring needs, Teledyne has developed a full line of oxygen monitors to compliment their diverse line of sensors. The TED...

THE NAGEL NETWORK, INC.
January 1, 2001... 500 Weyman Road Pittsburgh PA 15236 The Nagel Network's goal is to provide our customers with quality products and reliable service. We strive to offer the most innovative product lines for respiratory therapy, pulmonary function,...

THE SOURCE ENTERPRISE INC.
January 1, 2001... 1714 S. Lyon Street Santa Ana CA 92705 The Source Enterprise Inc. was formed to provide innovative new products and consulting solutions for hospitals, clinics, laboratories, physicians offices as well as manufacturers in the healthcare...

THERMO ALKO.
January 1, 2001... 500 Cummings Center Beverly MA 01915-6199 Thermo ALKO, formerly ALKO Diagnostic Corporation, was founded in 1975 as a manufacturer of Blood Gas and Electrolyte consumables. Specifically, Thermo ALKO's product line consists of...

TIARA MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
January 1, 2001... 14414 Detroit Avenue, Suite 205 Lakewood OH 44107 Tiara Medical Systems is your #1 SOURCE for CPAP & [O.sub.2] accessories. Owned and operated by former homecare dealers, Tiara Medical offers products in five categories: CPAP...

TRANSTRACHEAL SYSTEMS.
January 1, 2001... 109 Inverness Drive East Englewood CO 80112-5105 Transtracheal Systems is a medical device manufacturing company that specializes in the design and production of innovative oxygen therapy products. Each product in our line is designed to...

TYCO HEALTHCARE/PURITAN BENNETT.
January 1, 2001... 4820 Hacienda Drive Pleasanton CA 94588 Nellcor and Puritan Bennett are now part of Tyco Healthcare. Nellcor develops, manufactures and markets products that help diagnose, monitor and treat respiratory and anesthesia patients across...

VACUMED.
January 1, 2001... 4483 McGrath Street Suite 102 Ventura CA 93003 * Accessories: Mouthpieces, Nose clips, Tubing, Breathing Valves, Electrodes, Filters, Calibration Syringes * Spirometers: Seven models to choose from, ask for our Spirometer...

VAPOTHERM, INC.
January 1, 2001... 175 Ridgely, Suite 9 Annapolis MD 21401 Vapotherm, Inc is an Annapolis, Maryland based company that has developed the Vapotherm 2000I, a FDA approved high flow therapy system that delivers breathing gas at 5-40 1pm via nasal cannula....

VASCULAR TECHNOLOGY, INC. (VTI).
January 1, 2001... 175 Cabot Street Lowell MA 01854 Vascular Technology, Inc., manufactures oxygen analyzers and monitors along with replacement oxygen sensors for use with many of the most popular oxygen monitors, ventilators, and anesthesia machines,...

VENTWORLD.COM.
January 1, 2001... 105 S 12th St, Third Floor Philadelphia PA 19107 VentWorld.com, produced by Amethyst Research LLC, is the Internet's most comprehensive resource devoted to mechanical ventilation. It concentrates up-to-date information about products,...

VERSAMED, INC.
January 1, 2001... 401 Hackensack Avenue Hackensack NJ 07601 VersaMed Inc. is a leading international developer and manufacturer of intelligent ventilation systems. VersaMed's innovative flagship product, the iVent201 is the world's only "anytime,...

VIASYS HEALTHCARE CRITICAL CARE DIVISION.
January 1, 2001... 1100 Bird Center Drive Palm Springs CA 92262 VIASYS Healthcare Critical Care Division is a complimentary mix of companies: Bear Medical, Bird Products, and SensorMedics Critical Care serving the rapidly changing worldwide Critical Care...

VISION MEDICAL INCORPORATED.
January 1, 2001... 32187 Lake Road Avon Lake OH 44012 VMI offers a wide variety of products, systems and support services for Respiratory Therapy and related specialties in Hospitals, Asthma Clinics and Physician Offices. With a strong "systems...

VITAL SIGNS, INC.
January 1, 2001... 20 Campus Road Totowa NJ 07512 Vital Signs, Inc. designs, manufactures and markets single-patient use medical products for anesthesia, respiratory and other related critical care applications. Vital Signs has been enhancing safety for...

VORTRAN MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY 1, INC.
January 1, 2001... 3941 J Street, Suite 354 Sacramento CA 95819 VORTRAN Medical is the innovator and manufacturer of a unique line of low cost, single patient use, automatic respiratory products. The PercussiveNEB is VORTRAN's next generation of...

WOLFE TORY MEDICAL, INC.
January 1, 2001... 79 West 4500 South, Ste 16 Salt Lake City UT 84107 WOLFE TORY MEDICAL, INC. specializes in innovative, cost-effective, disposable medical devices designed to improve clinical outcomes and patient comfort while reducing overall costs...

W.T. FARLEY, INC.
January 1, 2001... 4450 Shopping Lane Simi Valley CA 93063 When W. T. Farley, Inc., was founded in 1968, we wanted to offer customers two things: the best medical equipment available and the best customer support possible. These two basic principals...

How to run a national respiratory conference in 58,381 easy lessons.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... The stage is set! 25 months of work is about to come to fruition. The first annual, FOCUS on Respiratory Care Conference, April 5, 6 & 7, 2001 at the Cleveland Convention Center, now awaits its guests! Believe me when I tell you; putting on a...

COPING WITH ANGER TOWARD YOUR EMPLOYEES.
January 1, 2001... What would you do in this situation? You're moving back the deadline for a major staff project because of a mistake you made in your calendar. Now you're telling your employees they will have to stay late to get everything done. Bart,...

HOW TO GO BACK TO SCHOOL, WORK FULL-TIME, AND KEEP YOUR SANTITY.
January 1, 2001... You want to take your career to the next level; but you'd have to get that degree, and the prospect of becoming a student again - especially when you already work a 24/7 job - is overwhelming. But don't rule school out yet! It is possible to...

BENCHMARKING 101: BE READY TO DO YOUR HOMEWORK.
January 1, 2001... We've experienced many institutional programs as a result of insultant-derived (er, I mean consultant-derived) buzzwords (TQM, CQI, patient-focused, downsizing, rightsizing, etc.). One program, Benchmarking, can lead to departmental and...

COUNT YOUR CHANGE(S).(managing progressive change in health care)
January 1, 2001... Few things make people grouchier than change, which may well explain why so many of the people working in health service delivery today are so very crabby. Just ask any patient! Change has come so fast and so furiously that it literally came...

THE ENROLLMENT CRISIS - Whose Fault is this Anyway.
January 1, 2001... Interest in respiratory care as a career choice is in the pits. We've witnessed the closing of several educational programs and of others being at risk, You may remember that in the fall issue of Focus about the "enrollment crisis," Among...

A Review of Medica's EasyBloodGas Analyzer.
January 1, 2001... In this issue we review the Medica EasyBloodGas analyzer. This is a relatively new device by a company that has a great deal of experience in Clinical Laboratory applications but is new to the blood gas analysis market. General...

SEAMLESS COMMUNICATION CAN HAPPEN RIGHT IN YOUR OWN DRIVEWAY!(on-line data storage services)
January 1, 2001... Communication. High-speed communication, in our service-oriented, information-age, web-based work environment, communication (the speedier the better) has become a key factor in making us successful and productive. I have a suggestion that...

USE OF CLINICAL CARE PATHS IN HOMECARE.
January 1, 2001... The Clinical Care Path is known by many names throughout the health care community including such names as: Care Maps, Case Paths, Clinical Pathways, Critical Paths, Care Tracks and Collaborative Paths. The use of the Clinical Path has been...

FOCUS Conference.
January 1, 2001... The Don McLean Concert It's a strange career I've had," says Don McLean. "I'm less successful than some people think I ought to be and more successful than other people realize. One thing Don McLean is, is the real thing. After earning...

NONINVASIVE POSITIVE PRESSURE VENTILATION PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATION.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Noninvasive Positive Pressure Ventilation: Principles and Applications by Nicholas S. Hill is a welcomed text that revisits an important ventilatory mode that has gained increasing interest a and d clinical application over the past 12 years....

IS THE CUSTOMER ALWAYS RIGHT?(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Contrary to what we may have learned about customer service; the adage that the customer is always right is not always the truth. It is one thing when patients are only misinformed, and a whole other story when they are adamant that they are...

WHY CLEVELAND?
January 1, 2001... We're not the only ones who think Cleveland ROCKS! Places Rated Almanac recently named Cleveland the nation's 2nd best for recreation. AAA named Cleveland one of the hottest new destination and Travel and Leisure magazine recently placed...

A COLUMN FOR ANYONE PERFORMING SLEEP STUDIES OR WHO THEMSELVES, NEED TO SLEEP.
January 1, 2001... Let me introduce myself. My name is Pamela Minkley. I am a dental assistant, turned surgical assistant for an oral surgeon, turned respiratory therapist specializing in pulmonary diagnostics. A recliner chair donated to the pulmonary function...

REPAIR AND REPLACEMENT SERVICES.
January 1, 2001... Beta Biomed Services, Inc. offers high quality, cost effective, repair, rebuild or replacement of all major manufacturer's PULSE OX SENSOR CABLES. We have a family of probes for a variety of applications. We also repair, rebuild or replace...

BAYER RAPIDLAB 800.
January 1, 2001... Blood gases, electrolytes, CO-oximetry, lactate and glucose. One instrument, one sample. Aspirates a precise amount of blood to reduce exposure to blood-borne pathogens. Onboard information management manages patient, QC and system. Interface...

PULMONARY FUNCTION ANALYZER.
January 1, 2001... The Keystone from PDS Instrumentation is a comprehensive PF Analyzer with advanced software for automation of FRC and DLCO tests. Using a vertical dry rolling seal volume spirometer, FRC, TLC and RV are determined by the steady state helium...

EASYBLOODGAS ANALYZER.
January 1, 2001... Medica's EasyBloodGas Analyzer is a fully automatic PO2, PCO2 and pH blood gas system. Reagents and waste are contained in a single solution module. No gas cylinders are needed. A unique and modular design makes maintenance easy. The...

LATEX-FREE TAPE.
January 1, 2001... The Original Pink Tape[R] from Hy-Tape has been the medical tape of choice for hospitals, nursing homes, home healthcare and long-term care facilities since 1948. Like the orginal, Hy-Tape, Latex-Free has a gentle adhesive perfect for...

NEW SIMS PORTEX CATALOG.
January 1, 2001... The new SIMS Portex Inc. product catalog is now available. This comprehensive 212 page full-color catalog contains updated product and technical data pertinent to today's anesthesia, respiratory care, critical care, infection control, and...

NITRIC OXIDE MEASUREMENT.
January 1, 2001... The new CLD 88sp offers the most accurate and sensitive Nitric Oxide determinations, while simultaneously measuring expiratory and inspiratory air flow. Flow is measured by the Spiroson ultrasonic transit time respirometer, with resolution to...

VORTRAN PRODUCTS.
January 1, 2001... VORTRAN Medical Technology 1 manufacturer of a unique line of inexpensive, single patient use, respiratory products: VORTRAN Automatic Resuscitator (VAR) - a MRI compatible, hands-free automatic resuscitator for transport. PercussiveNEB[TM] -...

NEW NASAL CANNULAS.
January 1, 2001... Intersurgical introduces the new full range of adult and pediatric nasal cannulas. As you have come so expect from the Intersurgical range, these product are meeting the highest standards of quality. Adult styles include straight, curved,...