Vidacare Corporation Donates more than $50,000 worth of EZ-IO® Vascular Access System Needles and Drivers to Partners In Health’s Haiti Relief Efforts to Help Treat Critically Injured Patients
Vidacare Corporation has partnered with Partners In Health (PIH) Organization to provide vital medical supplies in Haiti following the devastating earthquake which has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives. Vidacare Corporation is donating over $50,000 worth of equipment to help gain vascular access in earthquake survivors at PIH clinics and operating rooms around Haiti. An initial shipment of drivers and needles has already been sent to meet PIH’s request for medical supplies, and additional shipments are imminent.
About The EZ-IO® Vascular Access System
- Immediate Vascular Access: The system provides immediate vascular access using the intraosseous (inside the bone) space and is particularly valuable in dehydrated patients or patients with traumatic/blunt force injuries in whom essential vascular access could be difficult or impossible to establish.
- Standard for Intraosseous (IO) Access: The EZ-IO is recognized as the technology standard for intraosseous (IO) access and has been inserted in over 350,000 patients worldwide.
- Accepted by Medical Community: The EZ-IO system is part of the medical equipment inventory of approximately 60 percent of US advanced life support ambulances and supplied to over 50 percent of US hospital emergency departments, as well as US military healthcare providers.
Established in 2001, Vidacare Corporation is the developer of a broad technology platform that is defining the new field of intraosseous (inside the bone) medicine, with the potential to establish new standards of clinical excellence in the safe, rapid performance of medical procedures using the intraosseous space. Current applications include:
- vascular access
- emergency and disaster medicine
- oncology
- spinal surgery applications and
- regenerative medicine
Vidacare’s focus on enhancing clinical efficacy, patient safety and comfort, and reducing complications and their associated costs, has resulted in its devices becoming the recognized technology standard in their respective clinical fields.
