The FDA notified healthcare professionals this week that it is investigating energy levels in external biphasic defibrillators with shocks less than or equal to 200 Joules (J), because of reports they were ineffective.

November 12, 2009 – In addition to administering patient tests and managing patient information, Welch Allyn’s new CP 300 offers a full-featured ECG with the convenience of a laptop, single-key operation, a full-color 15-inch flip-screen, flexible report formatting and a full-featured stress option.

November 12, 2009 – A prototype of the Cardiac Diagnostic Monitoring (CDM) device, called the Mobile Patient ECG Telemetry System, or MPETS, will be shown at the 2009 American Heart Association (AHA) Scientific Sessions, Nov. 15-17, in Orlando, Fla.

November 12, 2009 - Positron Corp. predicts an industry wide demand for cardiac PET imaging, as a result of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) 2010 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule increasing Cardiac PET reimbursement by 20 percent, while reducing coverage for SPECT by 36 percent.

November 12, 2009 – Catheter-directed therapy or catheter-directed thrombolysis to dissolve dangerous blood clots in the lungs saves lives and should be considered a first-line treatment option for massive pulmonary embolism, according to researchers in the November Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology.

November 12, 2009 – The first enrollments were made this week in the global Attain Success trial that will evaluate implant success, complication rates and procedure times in the market-released Attain Family of left-heart leads and delivery systems portfolio from Medtronic.

November 10, 2009 – FDA and Edwards Lifesciences notified healthcare professionals this week about the class 1 FDA recall of CardioVations EndoClamp Aortic Catheter, due to the potential that the balloon catheters may spontaneously rupture during surgery.


The incidence of cardiac arrhythmia is expected to increase significantly with an aging U.S. population and rising rates of obesity. In 2008, atrial fibrillation (AF), the most common complex arrhythmia, affected between 3 and 5 million people in the United States.

November 10, 2009 – The latest data from seven studies focused on the treatment of peripheral arterial disease (PAD) were presented in the late-breaking trials session of the Vascular Interventional Advances (VIVA) 2009 annual meeting, which took place on Oct. 19 to 23 in Las Vegas.

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The buzz words “access to healthcare” have recently been at the center of many political campaigns and government appropriations. However, to fully understand the importance of “access to healthcare” you need to look at how it impacts ordinary Americans.
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