Encision Supports National Patient Safety Awareness Week
February 29 2008 - 6:53PM
PR Newswire (US)
BOULDER, Colo., Feb. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The National
Patient Safety Foundation's theme this year, "Patient Safety -- A
Road Taken Together," stresses the importance of improving
healthcare as a joint effort of hospitals, healthcare providers,
patients, and communities. Supporting National Patient Safety
Awareness Week, March 2-8, 2008, medical device manufacturer
Encision Inc. (AMEX:ECI) urges communities to actively partner with
local hospitals to promote patient safety. In recent months the
announcement that Medicare, Aetna and Blue Cross may not pay for
certain types of preventable hospital mistakes has served as a wake
up call to the healthcare industry. Hospitals are proactively
working to eliminate preventable complications that should never
occur. An estimated 15 million incidents of medical harm occur in
U.S. hospitals each year according to the Institute for Healthcare
Improvement. Based on the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement
Act of 2005 and recently proposed regulation from the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services, state lawmakers and
hospitals are looking at establishing Patient Safety Organizations
(PSOs) that would make it easier for hospitals to report errors and
would-be mistakes without fear of retribution. "Our Company's top
priority is to work alongside hospitals, doctors, patients and
professional associations to reduce the risk of medical harm during
surgery and significantly improve patient safety," said Encision
CEO Jack Serino. Encision provides approximately 550 hospitals in
49 states with its patented monitoring technology to prevent rare
but sometimes fatal complications related to laparoscopies --
routine minimally invasive surgery performed on over 4 million
people in the U.S. every year for gall bladder removal, simple
hernia repair, gynecological procedures, etc. It is possible during
the common laparoscopic procedure for the electrosurgical device to
shoot an arc of energy through failed insulation into a patient's
internal organs causing an undetected stray energy burn that can
lead to serious complications. Encision Inc. designs, develops,
manufactures and markets innovative surgical devices that allow
surgeons to optimize technique and patient safety during a broad
range of surgical procedures. Based in Boulder, Colorado, the
Company pioneered the development of patented AEM(R) Laparoscopic
Instruments to improve electrosurgery and reduce the chance for
patient injury in minimally invasive surgery. To find out if your
hospital uses Encision's AEM system to protect patients from stray
energy burns during laparoscopies, please call Alan Schwarz at
Encision, 800-998-0986, or visit http://www.encision.com/. Contact:
Jack Serino Chief Executive Officer Encision Inc. 303-444-2600
DATASOURCE: Encision Inc. CONTACT: Jack Serino, Chief Executive
Officer of Encision Inc., +1-303-444-2600 Web site:
http://www.encision.com/
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