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St. Jude Medical Inc.’s new cardiac rhythm management device is designed to help physicians manage heart failure (HF) ...

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Horizon Cardiology is a complete cardiovascular information solution for cath, hemodynamic monitoring, echocardiography ...

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MicroMaxx's purpose-built software and proprietary ASIC design yields high-quality images, while efficiently operating on either AC or battery power. The system boots up to scanning mode in under 15 seconds in a busy office, large hospital or critical care setting. This 7.7-pound device with a small footprint is designed to get medical professionals into, and out of, tight spaces fast.

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Onset Medical Corp.’s SoloPath transseptal access catheter utilizes Onset's Controlled Deployment Technology (CDT) to ...

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Cardiac Science's Powerheart G3 Plus, a CPR-enhanced addition to the Powerheart automated external defibrillator (AED) ...

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St. Jude Medical Inc. has announced FDA clearance for its Venture Wire Control Catheter on a rapid exchange delivery ...

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May 9, 2007 — Allied Minds, an investment corporation specializing in early stage university business ventures, has ...

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The Watchman device is designed to keep harmful sized blood clots that form in the left atrial appendage from entering the blood stream, potentially causing a stroke. The device is permanently placed just behind or at the opening of the left atrial appendage.

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The AtriCure Ablation and Sensing Unit (ASU) is a device that makes linear and transmural lesions in a matter of seconds ...

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The Xper Information Management is Philips’ new personalized cardiovascular workflow solution. The product suite ...

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Feature | Audie Lewis

Technological trendsetters within the cardiology arena have been embarking on a path of seamless integration of their ...

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Feature | Kim Phelan

In the world of cardiologists who treat adults with congenital heart disease, the unusual is not so very unusual and the rare is fairly commonplace. Take Wendy Book, M.D., for example — this week she might meet for the first time a patient presenting with a heart defect from birth for which there is no standard therapy, and for whom there may well be no exact replica on record.

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Figure 1 - As the demand for cardiology services is increasing, the supply has not kept pace. This has led to a shortage of doctors in the U.S.
Feature | Larry Sieb

In 2006, the baby boom generation (those born from 1946 - 1964) started turning 60 at the rate of 330 per hour ...

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Feature | Maureen Leahy

In a giant leap forward in ICD patient safety, the American College of Cardiology Foundation (ACCF), in conjunction with the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS), established the National Cardiovascular Data Registry's national ICD Registry in the fall of 2005 to measure ICD patient outcomes and track patient trends.

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Feature | Kim Phelan

Sometimes it's the smallest things that leave the strongest impression. Of the dozens of technologies with which I came ...

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