LAKE FOREST, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--I-Flow Corporation (NASDAQ:IFLO) is leading and helping to define a rapidly emerging trend of using silver as an antimicrobial agent to help reduce infections with its ON-Q® PainBuster® with ON-Q SilverSoaker® Antimicrobial Catheter combination. This approach was supported in a recent study published in The Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (Roe et al), entitled “Antimicrobial surface functionalization of plastic catheters by silver nanoparticles.” The study confirmed the potential usefulness of plastic catheters coated with proprietary silver nanoparticles, because of their demonstrated antimicrobial properties, and concluded that the treated catheters may be useful in reducing infectious complications in patients with indwelling catheters.
