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Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology (DAIC) is a magazine that reaches more than 25,000 healthcare professionals in cardiology, interventional cardiology and cath labs across the United States. These influential buying team members rely on DAIC's award-winning editorial content and comparison charts as a unique research tool for specifying, recommending and approving technology/device purchases.

Abbott plans to expand the monitoring capabilities of its FreeStyle Libre device to enable people to make healthier decisions. The platform uses a disk that is adhered to the skin and uses wireless communication with the patient's smartphone to transfer data into an app where they can monitor their glucose levels in real time without the need for finger prick blood tests. This wearable technology is now being expanded to other areas of biohealth monitoring.

News | Wearables

Abbott Announces Future of Biowearables at Consumer Electronics Show

January 7, 2022 — Abbott announced it is developing a new category of consumer biowearables called Lingo, which is being ...

January 07, 2022

Khaldoun Tarakji is moving from Cleveland Clinic to Medtronic.

News | EP Lab

Khaldoun Tarakji Joins Medtronic as Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of Cardiac Ablation Solutions

January 7, 2022 — Khaldoun Tarakji, M.D., M.P.H., associate section head of cardiac electrophysiology at the Heart ...

January 07, 2022

With the advent of endovascular technology in the 1990s, carotid angioplasty and stenting (CAS) emerged as an alternative mode of revascularization.

News | Stents Carotid

Transcarotid Artery Revascularization (TCAR) Versus Carotid Endarterectomy (CEA) Cost-Effectiveness Shows Benefit for Stenting

January 5, 2022 – A cost-effectiveness model based on peer-reviewed sources suggests that although five-year costs for ...

January 05, 2022

Among the top stories from December 2021 was new ultrasound transducer technology introduction by Philips Healthcare and the use of cardiac MRI to assess myocarditis caused by COVID-19 vaccinations.

Feature | By Dave Fornell, DAIC Editor

January 4, 2021 — Here is the list of the most popular content on the Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology (DAIC) ...

January 04, 2022

The Philips CavaClear IVC Filter Removal Laser Sheath showing how it hooks to the filter and the laser follows the IVC structure down to where it is anchored in scar tissue. It uses a CO2 laser to dissolve the issue and release the device so it can be sheathed and removed from the body.

News | Cath Lab

FDA Clears Philip CavaClear Laser Assisted IVC Filter Removal System

January 4, 2022 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authorized marketing of the first laser-based device ...

January 04, 2022

European Society of Cardiology (ESC) top news stories in 2021

News | ESC

Most Popular Stories on DAIC in 2021

Here is a list of the top 25 stories in 2021 on the Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology (DAIC) website based on ...

December 16, 2021

News | Heart Failure

First-Of-Its-Kind Medicare Advantage Plan Addresses Diabetics With Heart Failure

December 16, 2021 — MVP Health Care and The University of Vermont Health Network recently announced their joint Medicare ...

December 16, 2021

News | Intra-Aortic Balloon Pumps (IABP)

Cardiosave Hybrid and Cardiosave Rescue IABPs Recalled Due to Reports of Fluid Leaks

December 16, 2021 — Datascope/Getinge/Maquet has recalled the Cardiosave Hybrid and Cardiosave Rescue Intra-Aortic ...

December 16, 2021

The National Capital Consortium for Pediatric Device Innovation (NCC-PDI) picked 5 companies to award its “Make Your Medical Device Pitch for Kids!” competition. These include the PeriCor PeriTorq device (upper right), the Inkspace Imaging lightweight pediatric MRI could (lower right), and the Sibel Anne-One witless ICU neonate cardiopulmonary monitoring system (lower left).

News | Congenital Heart

5 Pediatric Cardiology Medical Device Competition Winners Recognized for Innovation

December 14, 2021 – The National Capital Consortium for Pediatric Device Innovation (NCC-PDI) announces five awardees ...

December 14, 2021

The Tria biopolymer surgical aortic valve displayed at Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak.

News | Heart Valve Technology

Foldax Gets Indian Approval to Start Clinical Trial of Tria Biopolymer Surgical Aortic Valve

December 13, 2021 - Foldax Inc. announced that the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI), India’s regulatory body for ...

December 13, 2021

Orlando Health used a hands-on simulation and online education to standardize response to code events and reduce time to first shock for sudden cardiac arrest. Getty Images

News | Sudden Cardiac Arrest

Hospital Initiative Reduced Time to First Shock for In-Hospital Cardiac Arrests

December 9, 2021 — During in-hospital cardiac arrests, responding quickly and confidently to code events requires a ...

December 09, 2021

The Viz.AI pulmonary embolism response team (PERT) app that uses AI to detect PE on images before they go into PACS, alerts the PERT team members and provides a mobile platform to message, review images and other patient data. Photo by Dave Fornell

Feature | Artificial Intelligence | By Dave Fornell, DAIC Editor

AI Can Facilitate Automated Activation of Pulmonary Embolism Response Teams

Artificial intelligence (AI) has found a unique niche to help automate the activation of acute care teams for pulmonary ...

December 09, 2021