June 3, 2008 - The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), today released a comprehensive plan for advancing health information technology (HIT).

May 3, 2008 – The first annual National CPR/AED Awareness Week, from June 1-7, will focus on how lives can be saved if more Americans know cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and use an automated external defibrillator (AED), and Congress is asking states and municipalities to make AEDs more publicly accessible.

June 3, 2008 - Two patients with permanent atrial fibrillation and three with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation underwent successful pulmonary vein isolation without any reported complications, according to Stefania Riva, M.D., who presented preliminary results of a study on new RF ablation catheters at the 7th Annual Session of the Italian Association of Arrhythmology and Cardiac Pacing on April 3, 2008 in Milan, Italy.

June 3, 2008 - Kimberly-Clark Health Care said today its InteguSeal Microbial Sealant, a microbial barrier designed to reduce the risk of skin flora contamination throughout a surgical procedure, received a 2008 Medical Design Excellence Award.

The InteguSeal Microbial Sealant uses a proprietary formulation to seal and immobilize pathogens to help protect against migration into an incision. The sealant has been used in more than 150,000 applications during surgical procedures internationally, the company said.

June 3, 2008 - The CE certified Over and Under Pericardium Covered Stent (PCS) commercial implantation and first implantation in the U.K. was performed at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital, representing the use of a new approach that may usher in a new era for interventional medicine.

June 3, 2008 - The first human use of Cook Medical’s new Zenith Low Profile AAA Endograft System with a smaller delivery system reportedly was successful, and the company hopes it will make endovascular treatment of aneurysms available to thoracic aortic aneurysm (TAA) and abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) patients.

The new system has been simplified to eliminate the top cap and uses more highly compressible Z-stent bodies instead of the existing stents used in the current Zenith Flex endografts, said the manufacturer.

June 3, 2008 - Johns Hopkins undergraduates have designed and built a device to enable critically ill intensive care unit patients to leave their beds and walk while remaining tethered to essential life-support equipment.

June 2, 2008 - Computed tomography angiography (CTA) offers a way to more quickly and cost effectively identify patients at low-risk of cardiac problems like the blocked arteries that lead to heart attacks, according to new University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine research.

June 2, 2008 - The ethics committee of the Centro Cardiologico Monzino (CCM-University of Milan), Milan, Italy, has approved the planned randomized clinical trial to evaluate the use of RenalGuard in the prevention of contrast-induced nephropathy (CIN) in high-risk patients undergoing catheterization procedures at its institution.

June 2, 2008 - Agfa HealthCare will exhibit its IMPAX Cardiovascular suite, a structured results management solution with an ECG component, at the British Cardiovascular Society (BCS) annual congress in Manchester from June 2-4, 2008.

Agfa's IMPAX Cardiovascular is designed to ensure the accuracy of patient records and eliminates redundant data entry. Structured results management is engineered to speed physician report generation and improves clinical communication. HeartStation, a new web-based ECG management system and component of the suite, will also be on display.

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