May 9, 2008 – The FDA cleared the Strada Carotid Guiding Sheath, a flexible tube for physicians to deliver balloon catheters, stents and other tools to open blockages in the carotid arteries.

The Strada Carotid Guiding Sheath, which also received European CE Mark approval, is designed specifically to provide easier and faster access to challenging carotid anatomy.

May 9, 2008 – The FDA approved Covidien’s contrast delivery system with radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology, integrating the technology to create a system that is designed to enhance patient safety by reducing the risk of medical errors in radiology departments.

Philips offered new disposable adult ECG leadwire electrodes to help with infection control May 3-8 at the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses National Teaching Institute in Chicago.

Medical gas and vacuum products maker Ohio Medical Corp. released its new Push-To-Set Digital vacuum regulators product line May 5 at the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses National Teaching Institute. A problem associated with setting medical suction pressures is that many clinicians often forget to "occlude the flow" while adjusting the vacuum level to verify accurate maximum vacuum pressure settings. The result of overlooking the occlusion step is inadvertently oversuctioning the patient with dangerously high levels of vacuum.

At the 2008 American Association of Critical-Care Nurses National Teaching Institute, Holtech Medical displayed its new FoleyManometer LV to help monitor intra-abdominal pressure (IAP).

The Strada Carotid Guiding Sheath is designed specifically to provide easier and faster access to challenging carotid anatomy.

May 9, 2008 – Philips launched the new Xcelera R2.2, the latest version of its Xcelera multimodality cardiology image management, analysis and reporting solution, offering improved support for imaging studies and data from key cardiac subspecialties including cardiac catheterization and cardiovascular ultrasound, and additionally supports nuclear cardiology, cardiac CT, cardiac MRI and electroph

May 8, 2008 – The first human procedure using the Volcano OCT imaging catheter, which uses optical coherence tomography (OCT) designed to enhance the diagnosis and treatment of coronary and peripheral vascular disease, was performed by Patrick Serruys, M.D., at the Thoraxcenter, in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

May 7, 2008 - The FDA has cleared for marketing a new safety engineered short-term peripheral intravenous (IV) catheter, the VantageCath, which is designed to reduce exposure to bloodborne pathogens during the placement of the catheter and also provide the clinician with desirable feature sets.

May 7, 2008 – Lantheus Medical Imaging initiated CaRES (Contrast Echocardiography REgistry for Safety Surveillance), a multicenter Phase IV observational study that will further evaluate the safety profile of DEFINITY Vial For (Perflutren Lipid Microsphere) Injectable Suspension in patients with suboptimal echocardiograms, to explore the safety profile of DEFINITY for which the FDA posted an alert on Oct. 10, 2007.

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