At AACN 2008, Vital Signs Inc. will display its new 500 and 1,000 mL InfusaScan fluid pressure infusor bags, which are designed to help reduce medication errors.
There has been a flood of new products and a rush by companies to get new infection control products on the market since last summer, when the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) passed a rule it will no longer reimburse healthcare facilities for preventable hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) starting in October 2008.
Cheetah Medical Inc. said this week the FDA cleared for marketing the Reliant, a portable cardiac output monitor that ...
Cardiac PET/CT represents a major advancement in cardiovascular diagnostics, offering significant clinical and ...
Medrad hopes to thrust new life into molecular imaging with its 510(k) pending FDG-PET power injector system called Intego, designed to promote greater accuracy in dose injection and which reportedly reduces radiation exposure related to FDG-handling by 40 percent.
The newest version of Mediware's medication management software suite reportedly offers enhanced data integration and functional improvements for tracking of medication orders, administrations and histories.
As obesity continues to be a widening problem in the U.S., anesthesiologists face more issues involving drug-induced ...
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To help ease the hand fatigue experienced by many surgeons during electrosurgery procedures, MEGADYNE recently announced ...
MedWaves Inc. received FDA 510(k) clearance in January 2008 for its patented Microwave Coagulation/Ablation System for ...
The battle for infection control is fought daily in wound management where the body's first line of defense against microbes has been breeched. Sometimes something old is made new again with a twist of new technology, as is the case in new infection-fighting wound care products that use shrimp shells, honey and silver as their key ingredients. The silver bullet
Providing exceptional cardiovascular care for patients to achieve the best possible outcomes is the number one goal for ...
Baxa Corp. launched the MedBoard Web-based medication tracking system in December 2007, designed to record pharmacy ...
An Achilles' heal in the armor of hospital patient safety protocol is the fact that anesthesiologists are the only ...
Monitoring system maker Mennen Medical recently said an additional monitor, the VitaLogik 4000 Series, will soon be ...
Cardiac positron emission tomography (PET) is growing in popularity among cardiologists because it provides the ability ...
Many clinicians probably feel like they are being treated like a 5-year-old with the constant warnings and reminders to ...
InfoLogix Inc. will launch the SurgiChip, a real-time wireless solution designed to address leading causes of surgical ...
April 9, 2008 - Michigan Instruments Inc. recently launched its new life support device, Life-Stat, that provides ...
April 08, 2008
