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Intensive Care Units around the world have been providing their patients with mechanical ventilation for the past 30 years, ever since the first electronic ventilator technology appeared in the early seventies. And ventilation therapy, irregardless of mode, has been delivered in the same manner — a clinician has regulated the pressures and volumes provided to the patient.

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CV Therapeutics Inc. says the MERLIN TIMI-36 study of ranolazine will proceed to the study close-out phase now that the ...

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Our anesthesia department was searching for a more accurate means of assessing volume status and predicting the response to fluid administration in this patient population. This population can be very challenging during vascular, trauma orthopedic, thoracic, general surgical and obstetric procedures.

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Clinical trials to study the efficacy of a novel cardiac viability imaging agent is now underway. FluoroPharma, Inc., an ...

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Abbott Vascular says it will begin launching its XIENCE V stent system immediately in most European countries, focusing ...

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A new procedure that delivers and places or repairs a heart valve through a catheter could soon become an alternative to open heart surgery for extremely high-risk patients.

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FDA has accepted ARIXTRA (fondaparinux sodium) Injection for priority review — the anticoagulant supplemental drug ...

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SmartPumps are tourniquet systems offering OR connectivity, superior performance, exceptional battery life and intuitive ...

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The genesis of the Abaxis Piccolo technology began with NASA, where scientists sought to develop and manufacture a small ...

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A new study in Denmark links healthy teeth and gums with heart health. Theheart.org reports that Danish investigators ...

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Catheters of all types as well as other intravascular devices (IVDs) that allow access to the bloodstream are potential ...

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Public confidence in the FDA is low and big changes may be in order to fix the system for approving and regulating drugs ...

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A retrospective study at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, showed that dialysis patients who ...

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Americans Andrew Z. Fire and Craig C. Mello have won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for their discover of “RNA ...

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FDA and Duke Clinical Research Institute will be working to develop a new generation of tools that enable early identification of potential cardiac side effects of drugs and devices. The agency will use a database comprising more than 200,000 ECGs to conduct the research.

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