Waterloo Healthcare Newsletter – December 2025
As the holiday season draws near, the entire Waterloo Healthcare team wants to extend our sincerest thanks to our incredible distributor partners and customers. Partnership and trust mean everything to us, and we're deeply grateful for the relationships we've built together. This year, we had so many opportunities to connect with you at conferences and shows across the country. We engaged in conversations that energize and inspire everything we do. We also had the pleasure of sharing valuable insights through the many articles and blogs we published throughout the year, and we hope you found them useful. Here's to continued success as we close out the year 2025! Wishing you and yours a wonderful holiday season and a happy, healthy New Year!
Best Practices for Clinicians: Effective Use of Code Carts in Emergency Resuscitation
Strategies to reduce emergency response times and improve ACLS compliance, standardize cart configurations, and enhance patient outcomes during cardiac arrest and medical emergencies often come down to actionable best practices for code cart management. Most of the time, this includes maintenance checklists, training protocols, and quality improvement metrics to make systems significantly easier to maintain.
Reducing Burnout in Emergency Medicine: Systemic Solutions Beyond Self-Care
Emergency medicine physicians and nurses face some of the highest burnout rates in healthcare. So many experience symptoms of emotional exhaustion, but that's only the beginning. It's become imperative that healthcare facilities that want to retain talented emergency medicine professionals look beyond individual resilience to address any issues that cause burnout.
Waterloo Healthcare Newsletter – September 2025
Controlled Substance Locks, Fall Conferences, and More Great Information In this newsletter, we unravel the critical importance of controlled substance locks on procedure carts and share essential maintenance tips for cleaning medical carts. We'll also unpack the evolution of healthcare emergency response systems.
From Crisis to Future Preparedness
In this article, we discuss the historical background of healthcare, the rise of emergency response systems, technology integration, modern healthcare practices, and future predictions.
Medical Cart Maintenance 101: Clean Smarter, Not Harder
Healthcare environments require a healthy level of cleanliness and functionality of medical equipment, but it's not just about appearance. Cleaning carts is a critical component of patient safety and infection control. Medical carts serve as mobile command centers throughout hospitals and clinics, so maintaining a specific cleaning protocol will ensure that they continue performing reliably while meeting healthcare standards.