Elective procedures have returned—but your diligence must remain high. Though the pandemic has receded from its highest rates of infection, the danger of spread still remains. As you take steps to disinfect your waiting rooms and maintain social distancing directives, there's one high-risk area that especially deserves your attention: the actual endoscopy procedure.
Guidance from the American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE) for resuming operations during the pandemic¹ includes two important notes regarding procedural oxygen masks:
To conquer the challenges of both ensuring adequate oxygen saturation and minimizing the spread of infection, Henry Schein Medical is proud to offer the FDA-approved Procedural Oxygen Mask™ (POM) from POM Medical LLC as part of its comprehensive GI portfolio.
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The Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation (ASPF) calls the POM "inexpensive…easy to use...comfortable and lightweight" with the beneficial side-effect of barrier protection for clinicans.²
By reducing costs, hypoxia-related events, and the risk of the spread of infection, the POM complements Henry Schein Medical's portfolio of products and solutions to maximize clinical and financial outcomes at your GI surgery practice.
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