May 29, 2008 - A study of all U.S. Medicare hospital patients who had abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) repair between 2001 and 2003 shows that high volume hospitals that used endovascular, rather than open surgical approaches, had improved mortality rates.
Double Black Imaging (DBI) is highlighting its new surgical LCD line up at this year’s Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) show May 31 – June 2, 2008 in San Jose, CA. DBI’s new surgical line includes a wide range of LCDs, including patient vicinity safe LCDs, Large format color medical LCDs and self-calibrating LCDs ideal for mounting on OR carts.
May 29, 2008 – Providing objective metrics and educational feedback to medical personnel who performed CPR on a cardiac arrest patient significantly improved ventilation rate, compression rate and depth of compression, and was associated with higher initial survival rates for cardiac arrest patients, according to results published in the Archives of Internal Medicine from the Resuscitation with
Providing exceptional cardiovascular care for patients to achieve the best possible outcomes is the number one goal for ...
May 29, 2008 - GE Healthcare IT and Kryptiq, a provider of healthcare information technology solutions, today entered a joint agreement for GE to exclusively distribute Kryptiq’s eScriptMessenger (eSM) in conjunction with GE’s Centricity Electronic Medical Record (EMR) and Centricity Practice Solution.
May 28, 2008 - The American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF) announced today ...
May 28, 2008 - A federal jury found that Boston Scientific Corp. has infringed three patents owned by Medtronic, and ...
Cardiac positron emission tomography (PET) is growing in popularity among cardiologists because it provides the ability ...
May 28, 2008 - SNM’s 55th Annual Meeting, “Molecular Imaging: Build on the Past, Define the Future,” will be held June ...
May 28, 2008 – The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the American Heart Association (AHA) have clarified their ...
May 28, 2008 - A team of cardiologists, radiologists and front-line physicians at Intermountain Medical Center in Murray ...
When performing radiofrequency (RF) ablation to treat cardiac arrhythmia, medical professionals must balance the safety ...
May 28, 2008 - Adding noninvasive imaging to current risk-assessment protocols may identify more people who are at risk ...
May 27, 2008 - Cook Medical (Cook) has received approval from the FDA for its Zenith TX2 Thoracic TAA Endovascular Graft, marking the expansion of Cook Medical’s portfolio of devices to treat aortic diseases.
Cook Medical's Zenith TX2 Thoracic TAA Endovascular Graft is designed for thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR).
Change Healthcare Cardiology Hemodynamics is an integrated hemodynamic monitoring system for monitoring vital signs and ...
May 26, 2008 – Spectranetics introduced the new LLD EZ Lead Locking Device (LLD) for the removal of nonfunctional or ...
May 27, 2008 - Vascular Solutions will partner with Radius Medical Technologies for the U.S. launch of the MICRO Elite ...
May 27, 2008 - Angiomax (bivalirudin) significantly improved net clinical adverse events by 24 percent as well as ...