The Vivid e adds a fully integrated, three-connector, docking cart, creating a true hybrid system with the power of ergonomic console-style and offers a complete cardiac feature set with additional transducers, adding stress echo for 2008.

The system is designed to provide a dedicated cardiovascular ultrasound solution for the physician office in a PC laptop-sized design.

March 2008

The Vivid S6 signature class cardiovascular ultrasound system reportedly combines strong performance and excellent image quality into a new console design. This new technology combines image acquisition, image processing and simplified image control. The system takes the clinical quantitative tools from the Vivid 7 and the miniaturization gained from Vivid i to create a cardiovascular and shared services system working to expands the reach of patient examinations.

GE will highlight a new design concept for its Vivid S5 cardiovascular ultrasound system, combining features from its Vivid I and Vivid 7, designed for use in multiple clinical settings.

The new concept will reportedly boast newly developed functions and ergonomic design, ready to serve a wide range of clinical users. The Vivid i works to improve efficiency by offering a larger-scale cardiovascular system in a portable and wireless design. Features include stress echo, tissue velocity imaging, IMT measurements and tissue tracking.

March 18, 2008 – Today Bristol-Myers Squibb Medical Imaging introduced its new name by launching Lantheus Medical Imaging, marking the first time in the company’s 50-year history that it will operate as an independent company.

March 18, 2008 – Northeast Monitoring received clearance from the FDA to sell its DR200 Series devices with its automatic atrial fibrillation (AFIB) detection solution, enabling the company to link the stand-alone DR200 series, “Tel-a-heart” Event Recorders and the DR200/HE Combination Holter and Event recorders.

March 18, 2008 - Northeast Monitoring has introduced the DR200/HE, a combination 14-day Holter plus 30-day Event recorder integrated into a single unit that is designed for deployment to patients in either 'Holter' or 'Event' mode.

March 18, 2008 - Northeast Monitoring Inc. released LX Sleep, a software product that reportedly detects OSA from data collected during a simplified, overnight, at-home, patient hookup to its OxyHolter product, as the company plans to launch its product line worldwide.

March 18, 2008 – The FDA gave AtriCure’s Coolrail linear ablation pen 510(k) clearance for the ablation of cardiac tissue, which can be used for patients with persistent and long-standing persistent atrial fibrillation, as the company expands its line of minimally invasive products.

March 18, 2008 - A catheter-based device, the Trellis-8 infusion catheter, which disperses thrombolytic solution directly into the clot of patients with deep vein thrombosis (DVT), is said to be safe and effective, according to data presented at the 33rd annual meeting of the Society of Interventional Radiology, held March 16, 2008.

March 18, 2008 - McKesson reports that it is unveiling two new Horizon Cardiology products for the cath lab, including Holding Area Charting and the Nurse Charting Station, at ACC ’08, both of which are designed to simplify and expedite information flow in the cath lab, increase data accuracy by minimizing duplication and strengthen the facility’s commitment to patient safety.

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