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.
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 ...
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.
Baxa Corp. launched the MedBoard Web-based medication tracking system in December 2007, designed to record pharmacy ...
As obesity continues to be a widening problem in the U.S., anesthesiologists face more issues involving drug-induced ...
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Monitoring system maker Mennen Medical recently said an additional monitor, the VitaLogik 4000 Series, will soon be ...
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
InfoLogix Inc. will launch the SurgiChip, a real-time wireless solution designed to address leading causes of surgical ...
Providing exceptional cardiovascular care for patients to achieve the best possible outcomes is the number one goal for ...
April 8, 2008 - A study using Itamar Medical's Endo-PAT2000, an FDA-cleared device used to assess endothelial function ...
The Philips HD7 is a high-volume ultrasound system used in cardiovascular, OB/GYN, anesthesiology, oncology, electrophysiology, stress echo, pediatric, orthopedic, urologic, emergency and other applications.
April 8, 2008 - Philips launched the latest addition to its HD ultrasound family of products, the Philips HD7, in the U ...
Cardiac positron emission tomography (PET) is growing in popularity among cardiologists because it provides the ability ...
April 8, 2008 - Doctors at Boston Medical Center (BMC) led by Chief of Cardiac Surgery Robert Poston, M.D., have been ...
April 8, 2008 - People who are taking three or more drugs and still have high blood pressure have a condition known as ...
MEDRAD Inc. won a Medical Design Excellence Award (MDEA) for the MEDRAD XDS Extravasation Detector, a device for the ...
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