COMPANY FACT FILE Covidien brands and products


Covidien is a leading manufacturer of healthcare-related products. These are: n Medical devices – includes endomechanical wound


closure, soft tissue repair, energy devices, oximetry and monitoring, airway and ventilation, vascular and other products


n Pharmaceuticals – includes specialty pharmaceuticals, active pharmaceutical ingredients, contrast products and radiopharmaceuticals


n Medical supplies – includes nursing care, medical, surgical, sharp safety and original equipment manufacturer (OEM) products.


Covidien’s core brands include Kendall, Autosuture, Permacol (Biologics), Syneture, Devon. Other companies that were acquired by Covidien were Valleylab, USSurgical, Mallinckrodt, Nellcor, Puritan Bennett[1]


EDUCATION AND TRAINING


Covidien maintains a significant commitment to improving patient outcomes via provision of training, education and support for surgeons, nurses and other healthcare professionals. To help it achieve this objective, the company operates a number of dedicated regional training centres in France, China, Japan and the US[10]


and on-site courses. These centres run a variety of postgraduate training


courses, advanced courses and resident training programmes, and nursing programmes. In addition, the company works in partnership with external medical institutions around the world to provide educational initiatives and online learning.[11-14] Postgraduate training includes master classes for practising


surgeons and medical staff with varying levels of surgical skill. The company’s Advanced Training Program is designed to provide clinical and technical training for surgeons in techniques required for minimally invasive surgical procedures such as laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery and colon surgery. Nursing programmes include product training and accredited continuing education courses covering technological advances in surgical stapling and suturing. Covidien also provides educational grants and sponsorship


(via its Foundation for Surgical Fellowships) at a number of leading US institutions.


KendallTM AMD foam dressing (0.5% PHMB) used to treat excessive bioburden in a trauma wound.


INNOVATION as well as running in-house


A key area of recent wound care innovation has been the development of foam dressings which incorporate polyhexamethylene biguanide (PHMB). The antiseptic properties of PHMB have been shown to be effective against a wide range of wound-related bacteria and fungi with little reported toxicity or allergy[15]


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PHMB antimicrobial dressings have great potential in the management of wound infection[15]


. Covidien is committed to


providing antimicrobial dressings for use in acute and chronic wounds and those that are traditionally difficult to dress such as exit site wounds and tracheostomy wounds (for this specific dressing request a sample at www.kendallamdfoam.com). Another interesting area of innovation is the use of porcine


dermal collagen. Permacol™ biological implant is a sterile fibrous sheet of acellular porcine dermal collagen and its constituent elastin fibres. It is indicated for permanent implantation to provide support in surgical procedures for the reconstruction, remodelling or reformation of soft connective tissue and can be used in complex abdominal wall repairs. This biological implant (Permacol™ biological implant)


is crosslinked using HMDI (hexamethylene diisocyanate), the benefit of this specific crosslinking process is that it increases the stability of the scaffold and increases resistance to degradation without compromising normal tissue repair[16]


. WHERE DOES COVIDIEN OPERATE? Covidien European Training Centre, Elancourt, France.


Covidien maintains a presence in more than 60 countries and employs approximately 42,000 employees worldwide. Its products are sold in more than 140 countries and 45% of Covidien sales are derived from outside the US. Nearly two-thirds of Covidien staff work in 53 manufacturing facilities located in 16 countries and the company employs more than 5,000 sales representatives. The parent company is based in Ireland.


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