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
RES-Q Healthcare Systems demonstrated its Patient Waiting Room View at AONE 2008. Similar to airline flight displays at ...
An Achilles' heal in the armor of hospital patient safety protocol is the fact that anesthesiologists are the only ...
Cardiac PET/CT represents a major advancement in cardiovascular diagnostics, offering significant clinical and ...
Michigan Instruments Inc. recently launched its new life support device, Life-Stat that provides effective, consistent hands-free cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). This mechanical CPR device provides rescuer hands-free AHA Guideline-compliant CPR in either the 30:2 compression to ventilation ratio or continuous chest compressions with asynchronous ventilation modes of operation.
At AACN 2008, Vital Signs Inc. will display its new 500 and 1,000 mL InfusaScan fluid pressure infusor bags, which are designed to help reduce medication errors.
April 8, 2008 - Philips launched the latest addition to its HD ultrasound family of products, the Philips HD7, in the U ...
SPONSORED CONTENT — Studycast is a comprehensive imaging workflow system that allows healthcare professionals to work ...
MEDRAD Inc. won a Medical Design Excellence Award (MDEA) for the MEDRAD XDS Extravasation Detector, a device for the ...
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 ...
Providing exceptional cardiovascular care for patients to achieve the best possible outcomes is the number one goal for ...
April 8, 2008 - Atrial fibrillation demonstrated that a port access, paracardioscopic Ex-Maze procedure produced favorable outcomes and allowed patients to discontinue antiarrhythmic drugs, according to interim results from a study presented by Andy C. Kiser, M.D., at the American College of Cardiology meeting in Chicago, IL.
The Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (DRA) has left its mark on hospitals and outpatient imaging center operators. There is no denying that the imaging industry has changed forever. Some may think that the 10 percent of operators on the brink of bankruptcy or in default on payments to finance vendors is a mere market correction for years of overgrowth. But do the math.
Itamar Medical's Endo-PAT2000 is an FDA-cleared device used to assess endothelial function.
Cardiac positron emission tomography (PET) is growing in popularity among cardiologists because it provides the ability ...
April 8, 2008 - The first-in-man study funded by MIV Therapeutics Inc. (MIV) showed that MIV's VESTAsync stents ...
April 8, 2008 - Battelle, a nonprofit independent research and development organization, and MEDRAD Inc. won a Medical ...
April 8, 2008 - The government on Monday said it would raise payments next year to insurers that provide healthcare ...
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