Mosby's Nursing Skills and CORPAK MedSystems Partner to Create New Online Feeding Tube Placement Skill

CORTRAK Placement Skill Will Help Nurses Avoid Tube Placement Complications, Minimize X-Ray Exposure and Control Costs

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, January 7 - Elsevier (www.elsevier.com), a world leader in
healthcare and medical publishing and online solutions, today announced that
Elsevier/Mosby Nursing Skills (www.nursingskills.com), a Web-based
skills reference and competency management tool offering nurses detailed
information on more than 900 skills, has partnered with Wheeling,
Illinois-based CORPAK MedSystems (www.corpakmedsystems.com), a
manufacturer of enteral/vascular access devices, to develop an online skill
reference for placing feeding tubes using the CORTRAK(R) Enteral Access
System.

"Mosby's Nursing Skills is proud to provide online education
and training support for a unique bedside feeding tube placement system that
offers advantages in total procedure costs, as well as the accuracy and
safety of nasogastric or nasojejunal placements," said Kathleen Cohen, RN ,
Elsevier's Executive Clinical Editor. "Through this first-ever partnership
between Elsevier and a medical device manufacturer, nurses who deliver care
in hospitals and surgery centers can learn and reinforce tube placement
skills, meeting patients' needs for comfort and nurse management's demands
for quality, accuracy, safety and efficiency.

The CORTRAK Skill within Mosby's Nursing Skills offers a quick
sheet with an abbreviated step-by-step placement procedure, checklist,
animated demonstration, illustrations, extended text with the full
step-by-step placement procedure and an interactive test that allows nurses
to assess their own knowledge and skill.

The CORTRAK Skill is currently available to all current
Nursing Skills subscribers. Hospitals that already use the CORTRAK System
will have access to the CORTRAK skill, even if they are not currently Mosby
Nursing Skills subscribers.

Mosby's Nursing Skills interactive functionality also offers
subscribers the opportunity to customize skills for institution-specific
protocols and procedures or link to nursing policies and procedures. As a
result, hospitals can easily develop an internal protocol for placing feeding
tubes using CORTRAK-either by using the protocol directly or modifying it to
meet unique clinical goals.

"The CORPAK Placement Skill available through Mosby's Nursing
skills will help nurses achieve more efficient, faster tube placements," said
Jill Lazar, CORPAK's Senior Product Manager. "Benefits include elimination of
the x-ray costs associated with feeding tube placement confirmation and
earlier enteral access, which reduces length of stay and infection rates."

Blending a skills and procedures reference with a learning and
competency management system, Mosby's Nursing Skills offers subscribers
access to more than 800 nursing skills and procedures with detailed text,
summary reviews, tests, checklists, illustrations and video/animation
demonstrations. Nurse managers and educators can assign, track and manage
skills and test nursing staff, while nurse management can post and manage
announcements and alerts to communicate with staff.

The CORTRAK Placement Procedure will appear in the American
Association of Critical Care Procedure Guide scheduled for publication in May
2010.

About Elsevier

Elsevier is a world-leading publisher of scientific, technical
and medical information products and services. The company works in
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than 2,000 journals, including The Lancet (www.thelancet.com) and Cell
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which help research and health care institutions deliver better outcomes more
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About CORPAK MedSystems

CORPAK MedSystems, founded in 1979 and headquartered in
Wheeling, IL, manufactures and markets enteral/vascular access devices used
primarily in the acute care setting; hospitals and surgery centers. Products
are sold worldwide through a combination of exclusive distributors and a
direct sales force. CORPAK manufactures a complete range of leading edge
enteral access devices including, CORTRAK, a device that "traks" the feeding
tube during the bedside placement procedure, CORPAK MedSystems is dedicated
developing leading edge medical technology. For more information on new
products and how they benefit both patients and clinicians, please visit
www.corpakmedsystems.com.

    Tom Reller
    Vice President, Corp. Relations, Elsevier
    +1-215-239-3508
    T.Reller@Elsevier.com

Tom Reller, Vice President, Corp. Relations, Elsevier, +1-215-239-3508, T.Reller at Elsevier.com