May 30, 2008 - St. Jude Medical Inc. launched the TigerWire Steerable Guidewire, designed to enhance physicians' ability to steer through challenging peripheral arteries, as the company extends its GuideRight portfolio of steerable guidewires.

April 29, 2008 - Routing video and other vital information to and from the surgical team often requires installing costly and complicated operating room (OR) integration systems, and ECRI Institute will offer insights with its “OR Integration: Best Practices for a Safe and Effective Implementation” Web conference Wednesday, May 28.

April 30, 2008 - The surgeon working inside J.C. Bizzle's chest perched at an egg-shaped console a few yards from the operating table. Without laying hands on his patient, he bypassed two clogged arteries supplying Bizzle's heart.

The University of Chicago's Sudhir Srivastava, M.D., performed the surgery without a big incision, without splitting Bizzle's breastbone and without stopping his heart. The spider-like arms of a robot did most of the work.

April 30, 2008 - The PAS-Port Proximal Anastomosis System achieved its primary endpoint in a large, prospective, randomized pivotal clinical trial, and based these results, Cardica has submitted a 510(k) premarket notification to the FDA for the PAS-Port system.

April 30, 2008 - Physio-Control Inc. has reached an agreement on a consent decree with the FDA regarding its quality system improvements for its external defibrillator products, which outlines steps the company must take to regain permission for unrestricted distribution of its external defibrillators.

April 30, 2008 - A new study indicates that use of the minimally invasive W.L. GORE TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis to treat descending thoracic aneurysms appears to be superior to open surgical repair in anatomically suitable patients.

April 30, 2008 - Acusphere has submitted a New Drug Application (NDA) to the FDA for approval to market Imagify (Perflubutane Polymer Microspheres for Injectable Suspension), an ultrasound imaging agent for the detection of coronary artery disease, which could prove as accurate as nuclear stress testing.

The NDA includes data from studies of Imagify in more than 1,000 patients worldwide, including two pivotal international multi-center Phase III clinical trials, RAMP-1 and RAMP-2 (Real-Time Assessment of Myocardial Perfusion).

April 29, 2008 - Sorin Group Cardiac Rhythm Management completed the first implant in a clinical trial of its new-generation PARADYM 8770 sonR cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillator (CRT-D), introducing a technology based on hemodynamic response for continuous adjustment of cardiac resynchronization.

April 29, 2008 - The FDA has approved the LipiScan Coronary Imaging System, an angiography laser scanner by InfraReDx Inc., which is intended to characterize fatty deposits in coronary vessel walls using near infrared diffuse spectroscopy.

April 29, 2008 - Medtronic received CE mark approval for the Defender embolic protection filter, a device designed to get rid of emboli that can occur during a variety of stenting procedures.

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