This may be the Red Bull of interventional cardiology sessions, since The Society of Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) and ACCā€™s Innovation in Intervention: i2 Summit joined forces to form the ā€œSCAI-ACCi2ā€ meeting.

March 12, 2008 - Siemens will showcase its latest ultrasound technologies, focusing on its ACUSON S2000, ACUSON X300 and the laptop-based ACUSON P50 echocardiography system, at the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM), March 12-15, in San Diego, CA.

March 12, 2008 - Mindray Medical International Ltd. has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Datascope Corp.ā€™s patient monitoring business, creating upon completion the third-largest player in the global patient monitoring device industry, said Mindray.

ScImageā€™s Web server based Enterprise PACS, PicomEnterprise, employs a single database to organize, categorize, store and distribute exam specific information from multiple departments. This data can be in the form of DICOM and non-DICOM images, clinical reporting, physician dictation, ECG waveforms and even jpeg photos or mpeg videos.

Vitrea 4.0 and ViTALConnect offer advanced visualization and analysis capabilities via workstation clients, remote clients and Web-based clients. These releases include enhancements to the companyā€™s cardiovascular, neurovascular and gastrointestinal applications as well as improved Web-based cardiovascular analysis and distribution capabilities.

At ACC 2008, GE Healthcare will be displaying its Innova BiPlane cardiovascular imaging system, one of the first digital flat panel biplane systems with a full-sized lateral plane to cover lateral anatomy without requiring multiple contrast injections and radiation exposures.

FUJIFILMā€™s Synapse 3.2.1 software, an extension of version 3.2, with a new Graphic User Interface (GUI), will be featured at ACC 2008. GUI changes include increase use of color to help identify changes in information on the display, new icons and a contrast scheme designed for radiology viewing conditions.

Soarian Cardiology is an information solution designed to address the clinical, financial and operational workflow challenges of the cardiac care team.


Sometimes the smallest changes in technology can have a huge impact, and in healthcare, this means improved patient outcome. Thatā€™s what electrophysiologists are discovering with new catheter tip technology used for radiofrequency and alternative ablation treatments for supraventricular tachycardias such as atrial flutter and atrial fibrillation. Thanks to a few very notable advances in tip technology, electrophysiologists are able to improve upon precision when performing sensitive ablative procedures on myocardium tissues.
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Choosing the right device to regulate or jump-start the heart can be a challenge. Not only does a patientā€™s symptoms often dictate whether a pacemaker or defibrillator is a more appropriate treatment, but new advances in technology are making the choice between available devices more difficult.
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