The Mynx VCS vascular closure system (VCD) by AccessClosure designed to seal a puncture site in the femoral artery and stop the bleeding after a cardiac catheterization procedure.

The Mynx VCS uses a balloon catheter and a standard procedural sheath to deliver an extravascular, hydrogel sealant used to seal the puncture site. Following the cardiac catheterization procedure, the Mynx VCS balloon catheter is inserted through the introducer sheath into the femoral artery to temporarily stop bleeding at the puncture site.

August 22, 2008 - The 23rd Annual Advances in Contrast Ultrasound: Atherosclerosis Imaging and Interventions/Bubble Course will explore applications of contrast ultrasound Sept. 18-19 at the Millennium Knickerbocker Hotel in Chicago.

August 22, 2008 - SonoSite Inc. said today it began customer shipments of its first major expansion of capabilities for the S Series ultrasound tools, with upgrades including four transducers covering a wide range of clinical applications to the S Series product line and enabling playback of the SonoSite Education Key program training modules.

August 22, 2008 – The 21st annual Healthcare Facilities Symposium and Expo Sept. 9-11, 2008 at Navy Pier in Chicago brings together the entire team who designs, plans, constructs and manages healthcare facilities.

HFSE focuses on how the physical space directly impacts the staff, patients and their families and the delivery of healthcare. Ideas, practices, products and solutions will be exchanged, explored and discovered at HFSE that improve current healthcare facilities and plan the facilities of tomorrow.

August 22, 2008 – The FDA informed healthcare professionals today that the agency is investigating a report from the Simvastatin and Ezetimibe in Aortic Stenosis (SEAS) trial of a possible association between the use of Vytorin and a potentially increased incidence of cancer.

August 22, 2008 - HeartWare Ltd. this week said the first patient in the U.S. received the HeartWare Left Ventricular Assist System (LVAS) at Washington Hospital Center (WHC) in Washington, D.C.

August 22, 2008 - St. Jude Medical Inc. this week said the FDA approved of the company’s new facility in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, for the manufacturing of pacemakers and cardiac leads.

August 21, 2008 – The first U.S. patient implanted with the DuraHeart Left Ventricular Assist System (LVAS) was discharged home 15 days after receiving the device, Terumo Heart Inc. announced today.

The 62-year-old male patient left the University of Michigan Health System on August 14. Suffering from heart failure for nearly 20 years, he is the first U.S. patient to receive a ventricular assist system that utilizes advanced magnetic levitation (Mag-Lev), a new, innovative type of technology.

August 21, 2008 - CardioECG 3.2, introduced by LUMEDX Corp. and Epiphany Cardiography Products, is a multimodality, multivendor, pure-Web software for cardiac rhythm data management.

By delivering clinical data from over 60 different devices and over 30 vendors across 10 different modalities such as cardiograph, Holter, stress, patient monitoring, PFT, and defibrillator, CardioECG is said to streamline data management, support best-of-breed clinical environments and significantly reduce total cost of ownership.

August 20, 2008 - Diagnostic testing conducted at or near the site of the patient, known as patient-side point-of-care testing, enables doctors to make decisions on patients presenting in the emergency department with chest pain up to 20 minutes faster than those whose lab tests are evaluated by a standard lab, according to a study appearing this month in the journal Annals of Emergency Medicine.

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