September 5, 2008 - Pathway Medical Technologies Inc., today received FDA clearance to market Jetstream, a peripheral atherectomy catheter designed for use in the treatment of peripheral artery disease (PAD) in the lower limbs.
September 5, 2008 - Boston’s Brigham & Women’s (B&W) Hospital, a 777-bed teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School ...
Vascular Solutions will partner with Radius Medical Technologies for the U.S. launch of the MICRO Elite Snare, a device ...
Providing exceptional cardiovascular care for patients to achieve the best possible outcomes is the number one goal for ...
September 5, 2008 - Digirad Corp. today announced the initial clinical trial of its new SPECT imaging system ...
Cardiac Science launched its HeartCentrix 6.2 data management product for the physician office to connect Burdick and ...
September 4, 2008 - GE Healthcare's Diagnostic Cardiology Service team prides itself on exceeding the expectations of ...
Cardiac positron emission tomography (PET) is growing in popularity among cardiologists because it provides the ability ...
September 5, 2008 - The results of the SYNTAX study, a head-to-head comparison between drug-eluting stents (DES) using ...
September 5, 2008 - GE Healthcare today said it launched a new ultrasound system for radiology and vascular applications, the LOGIQ E9, which fuses ultrasound images with images from other imaging modalities like CT and MR.
While the primary reason hospitals adopt new technology is to increase patient care and produce better outcomes, there are many other factors that also affect purchasing decisions.
When performing radiofrequency (RF) ablation to treat cardiac arrhythmia, medical professionals must balance the safety ...
The FDA recently cleared Boston Scientific Corp.’s PROMUS Everolimus-Eluting Coronary Stent System and Abbott Vascular’s ...
AngioScore Inc. has introduced longer and larger AngioSculpt PTA Scoring Balloon Catheters for the treatment of peripheral artery disease (PAD).
The R Series defibrillator for hospitals aims for simplicity and operational readiness to help improve in-hospital ...
Change Healthcare Cardiology Hemodynamics is an integrated hemodynamic monitoring system for monitoring vital signs and ...
September 1, 2008 - More than 22 million people worldwide suffer from heart failure, and most heart failure hospitalizations are due to excessive fluid accumulation in the chest cavity, and new data presented at the European Society of Cardiology Congress this week shows Medtronic’s devices equipped with OptiVol Fluid Status Monitoring Alerts may give advance warning of a patients’ worsening c
As the new editor of Diagnostic and Invasive Cardiology (DAIC), I hope communication will not be one-sided with me presenting or reviewing new technology on the market. I would like to hear from the readers — the end users of these products — to find out your thoughts. I would also like to find out what you consider as important issues, or what technologies you would like to hear more about.
Tight inventory control in the cath and electrophysiology (EP) labs is critical to hospitals' bottom lines due to the expense of the items and their rapid expirations. A new technology showing big returns on investment is radio-frequency identification (RFID) tracking.