June 12, 2008 – In its post-congress report, the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) 55th annual ...
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 - The higher the level of nicotine in the toenails, the higher the risk of coronary heart disease (CAD) ...
Cardiac PET/CT represents a major advancement in cardiovascular diagnostics, offering significant clinical and ...
June 12, 2008 - Sorin Group closed the sale of its peripheral stent business to Datascope Corp., divesting its noncore ...
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.
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.
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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.
June 11, 2008 - TraumaCure Inc. said last week the DOD Joint Committee on Tactical Combat Casualty Care (CoTCCC) ...
June 10, 2008 - The use of ultrasound contrast agents during stress echocardiograms is safe, according to results ...
Providing exceptional cardiovascular care for patients to achieve the best possible outcomes is the number one goal for ...
OrbusNeich's Scoreflex coronary dilatation catheter, which is only CE Mark approval, but not yet FDA cleared, is a new ...
June 10, 2008 - OrbusNeich received CE Mark approval for the Scoreflex coronary dilatation catheter, a new product that ...
June 10, 2008 – A new calcium scoring method, which takes into account not only the amount of calcified plaque build-up ...
Cardiac positron emission tomography (PET) is growing in popularity among cardiologists because it provides the ability ...
Researchers are using speckle tracking imaging in heart ultrasound to monitor the health of transplant acceptance, and ...
June 9, 2008 - Atrium Medical has begun enrollment of the first patients for their CONFIRM 1, First-in-Man (FIM) drug ...
June 8, 2008 - Inhalation of carbon monoxide (CO) can reduce skeletal muscle injury after the following limb peripheral ...
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