The following is a roundup of key news and trial data that came out of the American College of Cardiology (ACC) 2011 Scientific Session in New Orleans last week.

Transcatheter Valve Repair Performs Very Well

The start-up company Corindus for several years has been developing a robotic-assist system for use in the cardiac cath lab. It not only navigates devices to target lesions, but also can be used to precisely guide, manipulate and deploy devices during interventional procedures. The system allows the operator to sit in a lead-shielded booth in the cath lab to perform procedures away from the table and outside of the radiation field. Operators work while sitting down, without lead aprons and with more precision than allowed with hand manipulation.

Dave Fornell, Editor DAIC

In 1991, a team of highly skilled engineers and clinicians from various disciplines began development of a new system for measuring blood pressure. Their goal was to develop a system that was non-invasive, as accurate as an indwelling catheter, measured continuously and did not require calibration. This team and their goal formed the nucleus for the company that is Medwave.
Medwave's team of engineers and clinicians began their task by researching all previous efforts to measure blood pressure non-invasively. One by one, each of these technologies was evaluated and rejected.

MAQUET is a subsidiary of the publicly-listed Swedish group of companies GETINGE AB. The MAQUET brand represents the Medical Systems business division. Together with the two other business areas ARJO Extended Care and GETINGE Infection Control, the entire GETINGE group of companies focuses on forward-looking medical technology. For the fiscal year 2005 the GETINGE Group posted sales revenues of 1,280 billion euros with a workforce of approximately 7,400 employees.

Transportation infrastructure and facilities - that's our focus. From infrastructure and facility design to computer simulation and economic impact analysis to finding alternative financing solutions for transportation projects - we do it. Our transportation specialists, located in offices across the nation, are unparalleled in the knowledge of the movement of freight and people, and unmatched in technical and managerial services. We provide full-scale professional services to both public- and private-sector transportation clients.

Import, store, view, print medical images. Diagnostic film, grayscale paper, color paper, and CD/DVD discs are customizable to showcase your modality’s image quality with Horizon Imager and Virtua Disc Publisher.
Integrity Medical Image Importer, a compact, stand alone solution to read, reconcile, store studies. Web-based for multi-user access; assures security. Integrity separates disc read from reconciliation for workflow advantages. Locate where patients arrive with discs to be imported; reconciliation/storing to PACS occurs at any network computer with a browser.

With headquarters in Tustin, Calif., Canon Medical Systems USA Inc. markets, sells, distributes and services radiology and cardiovascular systems, and coordinates clinical diagnostic imaging research for all modalities in the United States. Canon Medical Systems Corp,, an independent group company of Canon Inc., is a global leading provider of diagnostic imaging systems including CT, MRI, ultrasound, X-ray systems and clinical laboratory systems. 

ScImage, Inc. is an enterprise imaging and information management software company with more than 300 sites worldwide. Our solutions are deployed in radiology departments, cardiology departments, outpatient imaging centers and orthopedic surgeons' offices. Our approach to PACS is unique in that we offer a single database solution for multiple departments. ScImage calls this Enterprise PACS or "Enterprise Imaging" and it encompasses the ability to capture both DICOM images and non-DICOM objects. The solution is suitable for any subspecialty imaging that is done in the healthcare enterprise.

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