Feature | Dave Fornell

New technology has helped miniaturized bar-code drug administration and patient monitoring systems, eliminating the need for bulky machines or cart-based devices. The pocket-sized devices have helped increase patient safety and help speed triage and diagnosis. Alternatives to cart-based drug administration

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June 12, 2008 - St. Mary’s Medical Center (SMMC) is one of the first hospitals on the West Coast to routinely use the ...

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Feature | Maureen Leahy-Patano

Heart disease is the leading cause of death in Americans, claiming hundreds of thousands of lives yearly. The ability to diagnose and treat patients sooner and with more accuracy is key to winning the war against heart disease.

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June 12, 2008 - There is a lack of universally applied standards for administering radiopharmaceutical doses to children ...

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Feature | Dave Fornell

Personal digital assistants (PDAs) have found a niche in the healthcare market since their inception several years ago, and today the devices give doctors and nurses a critical wireless connection to patient records and Web-based databases to aid diagnosis and treatment.

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Feature | Dave Fornell

When I attended the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference in February in Orlando, it ...

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June 12, 2008 – In its post-congress report, the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) 55th annual ...

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Feature | Maureen Leahy-Patano

Nurses are the primary healthcare providers in the U.S. today, taking on more and more responsibilities within the hospital and often working long, irregular shifts. A physically demanding profession, nursing is consistently listed as one of the top 10 occupations for work-related musculoskeletal disorders, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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June 12, 2008 - The higher the level of nicotine in the toenails, the higher the risk of coronary heart disease (CAD) ...

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June 11, 2008 - TraumaCure Inc. said last week the DOD Joint Committee on Tactical Combat Casualty Care (CoTCCC) ...

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OrbusNeich's Scoreflex coronary dilatation catheter, which is only CE Mark approval, but not yet FDA cleared, is a new ...

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June 10, 2008 - The use of ultrasound contrast agents during stress echocardiograms is safe, according to results ...

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Feature | Cristen C. Bolan

Researchers are using speckle tracking imaging in heart ultrasound to monitor the health of transplant acceptance, and ...

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June 10, 2008 - OrbusNeich received CE Mark approval for the Scoreflex coronary dilatation catheter, a new product that ...

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June 10, 2008 – A new calcium scoring method, which takes into account not only the amount of calcified plaque build-up ...

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