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

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The Vivid 7 Dimension builds on GE’s imaging platform, acquiring more clinical information in fewer steps. GE’s transducer technology allows the use of only one probe to acquire multiple planes of images at the same time, and from the same heartbeat, without changing probe positions.

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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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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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Feature | Richard R. Rogoski

When it comes to treating patients suffering from heart failure, which is typically defined as a heart whose pumping power is weaker than normal, physicians are facing a paradox.

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Arrow’s Transradial introducers provide for durable radial artery access while being vessel friendly. Our newest kit contains our .018 micro-puncture wire guide and needle set to minimize vessel trauma. The 6 French sheath and dilator track well over the smaller wire and we’ve applied a hydrophilic coating on the polyurethane sheath to enhance insertion and removal.

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Feature | Ryan Hiett

If the cardiologists at the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMC) in Jackson have been facing an uphill battle ...

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Feature | Mark Paquin

Examples of physicians’ declining use of drug-eluting stents are growing. According to Dr. Louis Cannon, Cardiac & ...

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Feature | Richard R. Rogoski

In the simplest of terms, a ventricular assist device (VAD) is a battery-operated mechanical pump that helps a weakened ...

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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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