Several vendors explained recent trends in cardiac PACS during the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) annual meeting Nov. 29 – Dec. 3 in Chicago. Industry experts from Siemens, Infinitt, McKesson, Agfa, Visage, Thinking Systems, Brit, Fuji/ProSolv, Carestream, and ScImage all agreed on the following points: More Than Pictures
January 26, 2010 – Surgical ventricular assist device (VAD) maker Thoratec Corp. acquired a catheter-based pump technology and plans to develop a minimally invasive, axial flow pump that can be delivered percutaneously in the cardiac catheterization lab.
January 26, 2010 – The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) selected GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) to help develop a U.S. supply of a radioisotope used in more than 20 million annual, domestic diagnostic medical procedures.
Providing exceptional cardiovascular care for patients to achieve the best possible outcomes is the number one goal for ...
January 25, 2010 – Expanding its peripheral vascular disease product offerings, Medtronic Inc. today signed an agreement to acquire Invatec and two affiliated companies.
January 25, 2010 - In a significant development in treating congenital heart disease, the Medtronic Melody Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve today became the first transcatheter valve approved for use by the FDA.
January 25, 2010 - With more than 3,000 requests for medical devices to get 510(k) clearance each year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) asked the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to conduct a comprehensive study of the process, which is not scheduled to be concluded for another year.
Cardiac positron emission tomography (PET) is growing in popularity among cardiologists because it provides the ability ...
January 25, 2010 - Heart failure is a serious medical condition, in which the heart muscle progressively loses its ability to pump blood, that affects more than five million people in the United States and results in about 1.1 million hospitalizations and 300,000 deaths each year.
January 25, 2010 – First-in-man procedures and a feasibility study in Europe were recently initiated for a new minimally invasive aortic valve surgery system.
January 25, 2010 – Trials for a stent that attracts endothelial progenitor cells show positive results in patients with bifurcation lesions and those with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndrome.
When performing radiofrequency (RF) ablation to treat cardiac arrhythmia, medical professionals must balance the safety ...
January 25, 2010 – Direct stenting of the carotid arteries is a feasible technique and is not inferior to predilation, according to a new study published in the International Journal of Cardiology (Feb. 4, 2010, vol. 138, issue 3, pages 233-238).
January 22, 2010 – CE mark certification was granted this week for the BMEYE ccNexfin, the first noninvasive cardiovascular monitor with Masimo Rainbow SET Pulse CO-Oximetry technology.
January 22, 2010 - A new study by the University of Michigan Medical School and VA Ann Arbor Health System challenges the medical thinking that the lower the cholesterol, the better. Instead, they suggest tailoring treatment to a patient's overall heart attack risk, by considering all their risk factors, such as age, family history, and smoking status.
Change Healthcare Cardiology Hemodynamics is an integrated hemodynamic monitoring system for monitoring vital signs and ...
January 22, 2010 - The California Heart Center, the cardiology group that developed the nation’s largest heart transplant program, has joined the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute.
The debate over healthcare reform has raised many issues as to why costs have risen so much in recent years. During the debates, comments have been made that device manufacturers are a big factor in driving up costs.
Primarily used in the hospital setting, NATRECOR (nesiritide) is used intravenously in patients who have acutely decompensated heart failure with dyspnea (shortness of breath).