May 22, 2006
A trend is emerging in cardiovascular image and information systems designed for the cath lab and was apparent on the…
May 22, 2006
Magnetic navigation technology to direct and digitally control catheter and guidewire devices along complex paths…
May 22, 2006
An asymptomatic 75-year-old woman with a history of coronary artery disease, angioplasty, coronary artery bypass…
May 22, 2006
Beginning April 1, Terumo officially launches its own, full-scale marketing and sales program for all its products in…
May 22, 2006
As a professor of surgery and the director of a mitral valve clinic that performs 300 to 400 valve repairs each year (…
May 22, 2006
As costs continue to soar for the medical community, health professionals are looking for ways to save money while not…
May 22, 2006
In the microscopic world of arterial plaque, the only positive thing about positive remodeling is that physicians can…
May 22, 2006
Are drug-eluting stents destined to fail?
In Part 1 of this investigation, the connection of DES and thrombogenicity…
May 22, 2006
Ah, money, money, money — the Frankenstein monster that destroys souls.”
It’s one of many oddball lines from the zany…
May 22, 2006
Novelists and playwrights might call it a cruel irony — heroes who succumb to the powers of evil, true love tragically…
May 22, 2006
What factors are driving increased adoption of healthcare information technology, otherwise known as HIT?
Clinical IT…
May 22, 2006
It’s not uncommon for a cardiologist at University Community Hospital (UCH) in Tampa to walk about two miles to get his…
May 22, 2006
Although implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) have been around for nearly 20 years, they gained notoriety…
May 21, 2006
It’s like a never-ending battle — that’s how Lena Napolitano, M.D., describes the recent and sharp rise in nosocomial…
May 21, 2006
Intensive care units are highly dependent on the efficient transfer of physiological data to multiple healthcare…
May 21, 2006
Technological advancements over the years have forced most OR methods used in 1964 into dusty, old history books and…
May 21, 2006
Blood pressure measurement is a given for patients in the hospital, but for surgical or critically ill patients — in…
May 21, 2006
Electronic medical information improves patient safety by providing immediate and complete access to complex patient…
May 02, 2006
DAIC: What are some of the scenarios — decisions or investments — in which a hospital might want to
consider doing a…
May 02, 2006
A new spot blood pressure monitoring product from Medwave can now be sold and marketed in the U.S.
Primo is a handheld…
