June 12, 2008 – The registry arm of a clinical study to assess the safety and effectiveness of Cook Medical’s Zilver PTX Drug-Eluting Peripheral Stent (DES) in treating peripheral arterial disease (PAD) has yielded positive interim results, trial investigators reported at the 2008 SVS Vascular Annual Meeting last week.
Nurses are the primary healthcare providers in the U.S. today, taking on more and more responsibilities within the hospital and often working long, irregular shifts. A physically demanding profession, nursing is consistently listed as one of the top 10 occupations for work-related musculoskeletal disorders, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
June 12, 2008 - St. Mary’s Medical Center (SMMC) is one of the first hospitals on the West Coast to routinely use the ...
Cardiac PET/CT represents a major advancement in cardiovascular diagnostics, offering significant clinical and ...
In addition to the key function mobile computing serves to enter real-time, bedside information into patients’ ...
June 12, 2008 - There is a lack of universally applied standards for administering radiopharmaceutical doses to children ...
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
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June 11, 2008 - TraumaCure Inc. said last week the DOD Joint Committee on Tactical Combat Casualty Care (CoTCCC) ...
Researchers are using speckle tracking imaging in heart ultrasound to monitor the health of transplant acceptance, and ...
OrbusNeich's Scoreflex coronary dilatation catheter, which is only CE Mark approval, but not yet FDA cleared, is a new ...
Providing exceptional cardiovascular care for patients to achieve the best possible outcomes is the number one goal for ...
June 10, 2008 – A new calcium scoring method, which takes into account not only the amount of calcified plaque build-up ...
June 10, 2008 - The use of ultrasound contrast agents during stress echocardiograms is safe, according to results ...
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 ...
June 8, 2008 - Inhalation of carbon monoxide (CO) can reduce skeletal muscle injury after the following limb peripheral ...
June 9, 2008 - Siemens unveiled the ACUSON SC2000 volume imaging ultrasound system, which acquires nonstitched, real ...
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 11, 2008
