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Monitoring system maker Mennen Medical recently said an additional monitor, the VitaLogik 4000 Series, will soon be ...

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Feature | Dave Fornell

Antibiotics were a miracle drug when introduced more than 60 years ago, but they have also spurred the proliferation of antibiotic-resistant strains of super bug bacteria that hospitals are having a tough time controlling.

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InfoLogix Inc. will launch the SurgiChip, a real-time wireless solution designed to address leading causes of surgical ...

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Feature | Nick Obradovich

Between 44,000 and 98,000 Americans die each year from preventable medical errors, according to the Institute of ...

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RES-Q Healthcare Systems demonstrated its Patient Waiting Room View at AONE 2008. Similar to airline flight displays at ...

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Feature | Dave Fornell

There has been a flood of new products and a rush by companies to get new infection control products on the market since last summer, when the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) passed a rule it will no longer reimburse healthcare facilities for preventable hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) starting in October 2008.

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Michigan Instruments Inc. recently launched its new life support device, Life-Stat that provides effective, consistent hands-free cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). This mechanical CPR device provides rescuer hands-free AHA Guideline-compliant CPR in either the 30:2 compression to ventilation ratio or continuous chest compressions with asynchronous ventilation modes of operation.

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At AACN 2008, Vital Signs Inc. will display its new 500 and 1,000 mL InfusaScan fluid pressure infusor bags, which are designed to help reduce medication errors.

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Feature | Cristen C. Bolan

Medrad hopes to thrust new life into molecular imaging with its 510(k) pending FDG-PET power injector system called Intego, designed to promote greater accuracy in dose injection and which reportedly reduces radiation exposure related to FDG-handling by 40 percent.

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April 9, 2008 - Michigan Instruments Inc. recently launched its new life support device, Life-Stat, that provides ...

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Cheetah Medical Inc. said this week the FDA cleared for marketing the Reliant, a portable cardiac output monitor that ...

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Feature | Devjani Saha, M.D., and Girish P. Joshi, M.D., MB, BS, FFARCSI

As obesity continues to be a widening problem in the U.S., anesthesiologists face more issues involving drug-induced ...

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The newest version of Mediware's medication management software suite reportedly offers enhanced data integration and functional improvements for tracking of medication orders, administrations and histories.

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Feature | Dave Fornell

The battle for infection control is fought daily in wound management where the body's first line of defense against microbes has been breeched. Sometimes something old is made new again with a twist of new technology, as is the case in new infection-fighting wound care products that use shrimp shells, honey and silver as their key ingredients. The silver bullet

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To help ease the hand fatigue experienced by many surgeons during electrosurgery procedures, MEGADYNE recently announced ...

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