Contact: Bob Rogers Chief Executive Officer Ivera Medical Corp. Bob.rogers@iveramed.com 760-612-6090 San Diego, CA., November 28, 2011 Ivera Medical Corporation, a certified minority-owned business, has announced a new agreement with Novation for Curos® Port Protectors, a simple, innovative, disposable medical device that guards against healthcare-associated bloodstream infection by keeping luer-activated needleless valve access ports protected [...]

A recently published paper on a Department of Veteran’s Affairs (VA) project on CLABSI reduction used the requisite bundles, but focused on education and spreading the word in a manner appropriate to each VA facility (Render, Hasselbeck, Freyberg. BMJ Qual Saf 2011: 20:725-732.) The result was a decline from 3.8 CLABSI infections per 1,000 line [...]