Darcy Doellman, BSN, RN, CRNI, is a Vascular Access Nurse at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. Her responsibilities include PICC insertion along with troubleshooting central line complications, and providing education. Darcy has published and spoken extensively on her research outcomes as well as other related topics. She has developed educational programs for clinicians throughout the country. Darcy [...]

San Diego, CA. May 10, 2011 Ivera Medical Corporation, headquartered in San Diego, CA, filed suit against Excelsior Medical Corporation of Neptune, NJ, for patent infringement arising under the patent laws of the United States of America, 35 U.S.C. § 1, et seq. The suit was filed in the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of [...]

Ivera Medical Corporation, headquartered in San Diego, CA, filed suit against Excelsior Medical Corporation in March 2011 alleging that Excelsior had engaged in false advertising and unfair competition.  The suit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, San Diego, CA (Civil Case No. 11-cv-0426-W-WMC), was based on false and misleading [...]

According to the authors of recent research published in the American Journal of Infection Control, “Catheter hub contamination has been recognized as a source of catheter-related bloodstream infections. We have investigated the efficacy of a protection cap for a needleless injection device in preventing intraluminal catheter contamination, compared with a conventional 3-way stopcock.” “Adult patients [...]