THE HISTORY OF DANISH HEALTHCARE

Danish Healthcare ApS has been focusing on disposable products of the highest quality since 2007. Positioning straps can potentially be produced at a lower cost, but we are unwilling to compromise on safety. We therefore continue to supply the two layers of straps we developed in cooperation with hospitals in 2007.

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The company was founded in 2007 by former anaesthetic nurse Marianne Lund Larsen and her husband Per Lund Larsen.

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Throughout her many years of working as a nurse, Marianne has always been interested in enhancing the safety of patients and healthcare professionals.

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This was precisely the reason why Marianne developed the first products in 2007, which aimed to eliminate the risk of cross-contamination. At that time, only multi-use straps were used to position patients during surgery. Marianne discovered that the multi-purpose straps could not be properly cleaned after surgery. Reusing the straps risks spreading bacteria and viruses from one patient to another.

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On average, it costs the healthcare system approximately EUR 7,000 when a patient contracts an infection in hospital. In total, this amounts to more than EUR 140 million a year in Denmark alone.

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In addition to good hand hygiene, one of the major areas of focus is the use of disposable products.

 

It costs approximately EUR 1.5 per operation on average to use a disposable thigh strap. This is a very modest expense compared to the cost of treating hospital-acquired infections.

Danish Healthcare continuously seeks to replace more and more multi-use products with disposable ones, in order to help reduce the number of hospital-acquired infections.