The FLAIR Endovascular Stent Graft treats stenoses (narrowing) at the venous anastomosis of synthetic arteriovenous (AV) grafts in hemodialysis patients to increase blood flow.

The KODAK DIRECTVIEW Classic and Elite Computed Radiography Systems are compact, floor standing, single-cassette CR systems that can reportedly help improve workflow, productivity and patient throughput.
The systems, offering a modular design, are significantly smaller than other DIRECTVIEW single-cassette systems and reportedly incorporate the latest generation of CR software from Carestream Health. These systems use existing rigid cassettes to support general radiography exams, long-length imaging and dental applications as well as mammography exams.

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Agfa HealthCare’s DX-S reportedly fills the gap in the current range of Digital Radiography Solutions by providing a unique combination of image quality, speed and flexibility that exceed traditional CR solutions.

The Philips Step and Shoot Cardiac solution has reportedly been shown to save up to 80 percent of the dose in a cardiac exam. As the newest cardiac imaging innovation for the Philips Brilliance CT 64-channel scanner, it provides high quality CT images at low radiation dose. An axial prospective ECG-gated acquisition technique reportedly achieves full heart coverage within a short breath-hold.

Building on the foundation of GE Healthcare’s CT platform, the LightSpeed VCT XT is reportedly capable of capturing images of the heart and coronary arteries in as few as five heartbeats. With SnapShot Pulse, the LightSpeed VCT XT reduces a patient’s X-ray exposure time by up to 70 percent for diagnostic cardiac scans, using a process called prospective triggered gating.

The Toshiba Aquilion CT line’s product platform design reportedly allows for all customers to benefit from Toshiba’s Quantum Advantage, delivering the industry’s thinnest slice thickness at 0.5-millimeter isotropic slices, whether using an Aquilion 4-slice, 8-slice, 16-slice, 32-slice or 64-slice.

Siemens Medical Solutions received FDA 510(k) clearance for a 1.5 Tesla (T) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system that is reportedly more affordable, allowing providers to upgrade from low-field MRI systems or to add an MRI system for the first time.


Safe medication administration at the hospital bedside is not simply a matter of a nurse handing out the right meds at the right time and to the right patient, of course. Today, the practice is a cooperative effort between the nursing staff and the pharmacy working to maximize the benefits of information technology solutions, such as bar coding and wireless.


The clinical definition of intraoperative awareness — consciousness during general anesthesia — is a seemingly simple explanation for a complex, and controversial, phenomenon. Opinions surrounding how often intraoperative awareness, also described as anesthesia awareness, occurs, its implications for victims, as well as the best methods for prevention are varied.

Despite advances in our understanding of the pathophysiology of pain and the pharmacology of analgesic drugs, as well as increasing emphasis on adequate pain management [1], pain control remains inadequate in hospitalized patients.
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