Our VISTA™ training program offers you a variety of collaborative learning opportunities such as lectures, discussion, and hands-on training.
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The Affordable Care Act, which went into effect in 2010, created three distinct hospital pay-for-performance programs: Hospital Readmission Reduction Program Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program Hospital-Acquired Condition (HAC) Reduction Program Together, these programs evaluate hospitals’ quality performance and incentivize them to… 
The Cook Medical clinical specialist team is here to provide training for your vascular access needs. Over the past decade, Cook Medical has assembled a highly qualified clinical specialist team. Comprised of four nursing professionals with a combined 127 years… 
In September 2014, Chuck, a Cook Medical sales representative, and his wife, Barbara, underwent a significant ordeal when Barbara was hospitalized with a serious illness. First, she contracted a sepsis infection caused by a displaced feeding tube. Barbara then had… 
We sat down with Dr. David Beckett, an interventional radiologist at The Whiteley Clinic in London, England, to talk about pelvic congestion syndrome. Dr. Beckett explained the reasons why this painful disease is underdiagnosed and the importance of collaboration among… 
[caption id="attachment_1949" align="alignright" width="300"] Cook Medical’s breast lesion localization devices:1 MReye® Breast Lesion Localization Coil2 Kopans Breast Lesion Localization Needle3 X-Reidy Breast Lesion Localization Needle[/caption] In a report published in 2017, the World Cancer Research Fund International indicates that breast… 
In honor of National Liver Awareness Month (October), we are encouraging everyone to read Skinny Liver: A Proven Program to Prevent and Reverse the New Silent Epidemic – Fatty Liver Disease.1 The American Liver Foundation recommends Skinny Liver as a… 
Editor's note: On November 6 of 2016, interventional radiology lost one of its true pioneers, Dr. Constantin Cope. Dr. Cope’s contribution to the IR community will be forever felt through those who had the privilege of his training and mentorship.… 
Dr. Josef Rösch, who pioneered important new medical techniques and interventional procedures, passed away early this year at the age of 91. Some of his innovations include the use of embolization to control gastrointestinal bleeding and the transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic… 
On October 1, 2015, the U.S. healthcare system transitioned from the International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision (ICD-9) code set to International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision (ICD-10). Available on the Cook website is an ICD-9 to ICD-10 crosswalk for… 
A feeding tube enables people who can’t eat normally—due to injury, oral cancer, or another short-or long-term illness—to get the food and nutrition they need via a tube fed into the stomach through the abdomen. To honor Feeding Tube Awareness… 
What do you do? I am the regional manager for the Intervention Radiology (IR) business unit for Germany, Austria and the German-speaking part of Switzerland and Hungary. How long have you been with Cook? I began working for Cook over… 
In 2010, a diagnosis of testicular cancer interrupted Austin Detra’s college swimming career and his studies at Mesa State University in Colorado. Part of his treatment included the use of a Cook implantable port. After this experience, Austin had to… 
Last month, three Interventional Radiologists spent time at our headquarters in Bloomington, Indiana. When physicians come to Cook, we like to take them through the manufacturing plant to show them how the products they use every day are made. They… 
What do you do? I’m the senior global product manager and the team leader for Embolic Therapies. How long have you been with Cook? I started at Cook as an intern and took a full-time position in marketing in 1999.… 
May 6 kicks off National Nurses Week 2014 and we’re ready to celebrate! Nurses support each and every medical specialty and serve as experts in their fields. Maybe none more so than in the field of Vascular Access, where nurses are not only… 
Physicians are problem-solvers at heart. Those physicians who were working with pacemakers began to see the need for removing leads, and saw the risks to the patient associated with the methods being used. Several physicians began to tinker and identified…