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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 - 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 | Dave Fornell and Caitlin Hosty

In addition to the key function mobile computing serves to enter real-time, bedside information into patients’ ...

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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

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

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

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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 8, 2008 - A new study about how shear stress improves adult stem cell attachment to vascular surfaces moves researchers closer to the development of a unique tissue-engineered stem cell vascular bypass graft, reported a study presented during the Vascular Annual Meeting, June 5-8, in San Diego, CA.

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June 9, 2008 - Siemens Medical Solutions gained FDA 510(k) market clearance for the SOMATOM Definition AS, what is said ...

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June 9, 2008 - Atrium Medical has begun enrollment of the first patients for their CONFIRM 1, First-in-Man (FIM) drug ...

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