Frustrated over healthcare's “failure” to deter the growth of cardiac disease while holding many valuable, predictive ...

Dead is dead — everyone knows it, especially physicians. And what’s dead can’t be recovered; or can it? Startling ...
Abiomed Inc. recently announced the start of the IMPELLA 2.5 pilot study in the U.S. with the enrollment of the first ...
Adjustable parameters on the ACIST® CVI® Contrast Delivery System include, flow rate, volume, pressure limit, rise time ...
A software fusion application that enables clinicians to perform multimodality image fusion in a single application ...
OXILAN (Ioxilan Injection) is a contrast media for use in peripheral procedures because of its viscosity. Its reportedly ...
Situated in America’s heartland, St. Elizabeth Regional Medical Center is a healthcare leader for metro Lincoln, NE. It has been rated one of the Top 100 Hospitals by Solucient two of the past three years and recognized as a Magnet hospital by the American Nurses Credentialing Center for excellence in nursing.
As medical advancements continue to push the boundaries of what is possible in the field of structural heart ...
The Relay 250-mm thoracic stent-graft is commercially available in Europe in both straight and taper configurations. The ...
The EXCOR TAH-t has received CE approval with the CardioWest TAH-t. The pneumatic drivers provide precisely calibrated ...
The Philips integrated cath lab is a solution featuring integrated technologies designed to improve productivity and throughput.
Behavioral science is being applied in unique ways for enterprise imaging product design. Involving clinicians in the ...
The practice of cardiology is going through incredible changes. With more cardiologists interpreting CT data, they are learning new and innovative ways to quickly and more effectively evaluate, diagnose and treat patients in a specialty where time is of the essence.
The Atlas II ICD (implantable cardioverter defibrillator) and Atlas II HF CRT-D (cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillator) devices are capable of delivering unsurpassed energy, giving added security to patients whose hearts are especially difficult to defibrillate.
The i-STAT BNP cartridge is a point of care diagnostic test used to assess the level of BNP (brain naturietic peptide) ...
While the current positive revolution in percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) practice has been made possible by the ...
The Proxis Embolic Protection System is the first proximal embolic protection device designed for coronary applications.
The Encompass’ standards-based DVD-R archiving technology allows years of patient cardiology studies to be stored in a ...

At a pivotal time of advancement in cardiovascular imaging, diagnostics, interventions and therapies, a time when specialty heart hospitals are forming to combat the deadliest disease in America, the federal purse strings are about to be pulled a little tighter in 2007, and rules for these types of narrowly focused hospitals are going to be more stringent.