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  1. Please view all NFDA Innovation Award Finalists
  2. Cast your vote for who you think is the most innovative.

View voting results as of August 23, 2010.


2010 Innovation Award Finalists

American Airlines Cargo - Customized Military Cart—Honoring our Fallen Heroes!  
AA- Military Cart
American’s Employees have a deep care and concern for our fallen military heroes, and have taken it upon themselves at many airports around the U.S. to design and fabricate special carts that provide a much more dignified mode of handling for these special shipments.  One special cart was recently produced at our Tucson facility, that provided an excellent example of this work by dedicated and caring AA employees....More 

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Argent International - ThanoSeal - Eliminates leaks, Seals skin slip, Seals incisions
Argent International - ThanoSeal - Eliminates leaks
ThanoSeal is a pre-cut clear polyethylene tape to be used as a wound closure and sealer for needle sticks, carotid arteries, anywhere body fluids may leak.  ThanoSeal  is pre-cut in various convenient sizes and shapes.  2x2", 4"x4", 2" ovals and 4" by 25 foot rolls.

This ThanoSeal tape will minimize time to prepare a body for showing or reduce embalming time, and avoids sewing with possible needle injuries to the embalmer, especially if our Sutureless Protocol is used.  Most importantly, ThanoSeal will halt any leakage post embalming and this can provide tremendous “piece of mind” and obviously reduce further time and cost issues...More

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Barrier Products - BioSeal System Human Remains Sealing Station  
BioSeal System Human Remains Sealing Station
BioSeal Systems is addressing the health, safety and infection control issues involved in Mass Fatality Response. The BioSeal Human Remains Sealing Station is the only product in the world that is designed to solve the worker fatigue and emotional health cost that result from being required to seal hundreds of human remains each and every day at a temporary morgue.
This is a new product that is the response to a new need as presented by the Mass Fatality response community...More
 
The Dodge Company: The Dodge Waterless Aspirator 
The Dodge Company: The Dodge Waterless Aspirator
The Dodge Waterless Aspirator is the first electric aspirator available to funeral service which utilizes the technology of the peristaltic pump.  The peristaltic pump, which is primarily used in the medical field in dialysis and heart/lung bypass devices, eliminates the need for aspirated material to pass through a motorized mechanism or impellor.  The aspirator creates a vacuum by compressing flexible tubing, using a series of three rollers which rotate in a housing at a high rate of speed.  This allows the isolation of the aspirated material from any moving part of the...More


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Duncan Stuart Todd, Ltd: PrepArm HVAC Product for Preparation Rooms 
Duncan Stuart Todd, Ltd: PrepArm HVAC Product
PrepArm is a ventilating product for localized air extraction in the preparation room. 
It is an innovative application of a product that exists elsewhere in industry and adapted to the unique needs of the funeral industry for protecting the embalmer from noxious fumes.
PrepArm consists of a lighted transparent exhaust hood attached to arm sections that swivel by means of jointed elbows. The flexible arms function much like an overhead light in a dental office so that the embalmer can easily move the exhaust hood over the...More

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