3M, a leader in office and home supplies, also has a medical division dedicated to creating products for hospitals, clinics, nursing homes and health care practices. Their products include surgical tapes, dressings, skin care products, surgical drapes, masks, skin prepping systems, adhesive skin closures, surgical clippers, synthetic casting tapes and splints, biomedical electrodes, electrosurgery plates, stethoscopes, biological and chemical indicators, ethylene oxide sterilizers, and sterilization monitoring products.