The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions recently announced the launch of TRAnsition for VALUE, a multi-faceted educational initiative supported by Medtronic, to inform cardiologists, hospital administrators and cath lab staff about the benefits of expanding the adoption of transradial (wrist access) percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in the U.S.

Mexican doctors have safely reused donated pacemakers after sterilization, shows a study presented at the 30th Mexican Congress of Cardiology, Nov. 2-5 in Guadalajara, Mexico. The findings create the possibility for patients to receive a pacemaker who otherwise could not afford one.

GE Healthcare and Dutch-based cardiovascular imaging software provider Medis announced at the 2017 Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) annual conference a new collaboration agreement to increase the clinical availability and adoption of Medis Suite QAngio XA 3D, a proprietary image-based fractional flow reserve (FFR) technology.

November 9, 2017 — TherOx Inc. announced that results of its IC-HOT (Evaluation of Intracoronary Hyperoxemic Oxygen ...

In the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions’ (SCAI) comment letter to the Centers for Medicare& Medicaid Services (CMS) regarding the 2018 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (HOPPS) proposed rule, SCAI took the opportunity to ask CMS to add the acute myocardial infarction percutaneous coronary intervention (AMI-PCI) Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code (92941) to the inpatient-only (IPO) list.

November 8, 2017 — Physicians at UnityPoint Health Methodist, Peoria, Ill., are now offering fast, safe and accurate ...