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| Hello Friends! |
Welcome
to our first newsletter. Future issues will include
important product updates, reimbursement news and more. Send us your
feedback! |
| Product Notices and Advisories |
- A new contraindication
- In consultation with our medical advisors, we have added an additional contraindication to the pants and jacket: PATIENTS WHO ARE PREGNANT SHOULD NOT TREAT THE ABDOMINAL AREA. If
you have patients who want to use the pants or jacket during pregnancy,
they must disconnect the cells over the abdomen and in the groin area,
and cap the corresponding hoses. When using
the Lympha Press Plus, the "Cell Bypass" function should be used to
skip the abdominal cells and the cells in the groin. Therapists who use the device in clinic should be advised of this new contraindication. By the way, manual lymph drainage of the abdomen is also contraindicated during pregnancy.
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| Product News |
Our Phlebo Press DVT system for prevention of deep vein thrombosis has been submitted for FDA 510K approval. Approval is expected within the next three months. Although
the hospital DVT prophylaxis market is quite crowded, with fierce
competition between market leaders Tyco and Huntleigh, there is
definitely room for a good system in the home care and elective day surgery settings. The
Phlebo Press DVT is based on the same philosophy that has made Lympha
Press such a success - sequential compression with multiple cells, for
effective directional flow enhancement. We are also the only manufacturer with machine-washable, reusable garments
(competitors sell single-patient use garment only), making the Phlebo
Press DVT ideal for home care. Single-patient use garments are
available as well, for surgery and hospitalization.
Disposable paper pants - For those of you who ask what patients are supposed to wear under the pants, take note: stockinette is not enough! Have the patient wear light cotton pantyhose, tights, or, even better, ourdisposable paper pants. They protect the pants from soiling and perspiration, and are ideal for multiple user situations. These
pants are in stock at Lympha Press USA. So that you can see the
advantage of this new product, we will be including one pair of paper
pants free with each new Lympha Pants shipped to you. |
| Manufacturing News |
 We are proud to announce that Mego Afek has
received Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) certification from the
Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare. This certification is
extremely rigorous and requires adherence to the strict quality
standards of the Japanese medical device market. Mego
Afek is the exclusive supplier of sequential compression therapy
systems to Terumo Medical Corporation. Terumo supplies medical
disposables, cardivascular devices and other equipment in Japan and
around the world.
At left is a photo of one of our clean rooms, where disposable sleeves for the Phlebo Press DVT are manufactured. |
| Clinic Tips |
This
month, we offer some tips from our distributor in Denmark, Pernille
Krough. Aside from being a dynamic salesperson, Pernille is also a
registered nurse.
Here are a few of Pernille's recommendations for working with the Lympha Pants.
The
pants are good for double leg edema, but can also be used for single
leg edema. They prevent the edema from moving to the genitals
or the other leg!
Put the pants on backwards to improve pressure on the back and
decrease pressure on the stomach -works well on referred pain.
The pants can also be used on patients with colostomy - with one side open or backwards as described above!
The patient can lie on the side or stomach if they please.
Remember to tell the patient to flex the foot in the beginning, before the pants inflate, to avoid the foot being pressed down. [Ed. Note: if the pants hose pulls the foot down, you can also hang the hose bundle from the back of a chair.]
If the pants go too high up on the chest, advise the patient to open the zipper a little on both sides.
If
the patient needs more pressure on the stomach, they can put a filling
element such as a pillow on the stomach, to get extra pressure.
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| Sales Corner |
We have just completed our first year in New Jersey. We
thank all of our dealers for their support during this transitional
period. Mary Bellini is enjoying life with her family in Nova Scotia
and wishes you all well.
This first year has shown the emergence of the PBS (701A) and its
wide choice of sleeves unparalleled by any other EO651 manufacturer.
The number one comment of you our customers is that we made it too
good. We have had a failure rate of 0.1%. Pretty amazing. Hope to see
all of you at Medtrade in Orlando in October. | |
