New technology has helped miniaturized bar-code drug administration and patient monitoring systems, eliminating the need for bulky machines or cart-based devices. The pocket-sized devices have helped increase patient safety and help speed triage and diagnosis. Alternatives to cart-based drug administration
June 12, 2008 - St. Mary’s Medical Center (SMMC) is one of the first hospitals on the West Coast to routinely use the ...
Heart disease is the leading cause of death in Americans, claiming hundreds of thousands of lives yearly. The ability to diagnose and treat patients sooner and with more accuracy is key to winning the war against heart disease.
Cardiac PET/CT represents a major advancement in cardiovascular diagnostics, offering significant clinical and ...
June 12, 2008 - There is a lack of universally applied standards for administering radiopharmaceutical doses to children ...
Personal digital assistants (PDAs) have found a niche in the healthcare market since their inception several years ago, and today the devices give doctors and nurses a critical wireless connection to patient records and Web-based databases to aid diagnosis and treatment.
When I attended the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference in February in Orlando, it ...
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June 12, 2008 – In its post-congress report, the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) 55th annual ...
June 11, 2008 - TraumaCure Inc. said last week the DOD Joint Committee on Tactical Combat Casualty Care (CoTCCC) ...
June 10, 2008 – A new calcium scoring method, which takes into account not only the amount of calcified plaque build-up ...
Providing exceptional cardiovascular care for patients to achieve the best possible outcomes is the number one goal for ...
June 10, 2008 - The use of ultrasound contrast agents during stress echocardiograms is safe, according to results ...
Researchers are using speckle tracking imaging in heart ultrasound to monitor the health of transplant acceptance, and ...
June 10, 2008 - OrbusNeich received CE Mark approval for the Scoreflex coronary dilatation catheter, a new product that ...
Cardiac positron emission tomography (PET) is growing in popularity among cardiologists because it provides the ability ...
OrbusNeich's Scoreflex coronary dilatation catheter, which is only CE Mark approval, but not yet FDA cleared, is a new ...
June 8, 2008 - A new study about how shear stress improves adult stem cell attachment to vascular surfaces moves researchers closer to the development of a unique tissue-engineered stem cell vascular bypass graft, reported a study presented during the Vascular Annual Meeting, June 5-8, in San Diego, CA.
June 9, 2008 - Siemens Medical Solutions gained FDA 510(k) market clearance for the SOMATOM Definition AS, what is said ...
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