October 4, 2007 – Aloka recently announced that the company will unveil three new models of its ProSound Systems, the ProSound alpha 7, the ProSound 3500SX and the ProSound 6, aiming to provide versatile and high performance ultrasound systems in a very compact design, at the 17th World Congress on Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology, Oct. 7 to Oct. 11, in Florence, Italy.

October 4, 2007 – The acute success rate in patients treated for atrial fibrillation with the Niobe magnetic navigation system by Stereotaxis was 93 percent, announced Xu Chen, M.D., of the Rigshospitalet at the University of Copenhagen who presented the data at the recent European Society of Cardiology Congress (ESC) in Vienna.

October 4, 2007 – The Cleveland Clinic announced Oct. 3 its Top 10 Medical Innovations list, highlighting technologies which will likely have a big impact on healthcare in 2008, including therapies for valvular heart disease, unusually high cholesterol and severe neurologic disorders.
The list of breakthrough devices and therapies was selected by a panel of Cleveland Clinic physicians and scientists and was unveiled during Cleveland Clinic’s 2007 Medical Innovation Summit, which is currently underway.

October 3, 2007 - The American Society of PeriAnesthesia Nurses (ASPAN) today issued a 10-step action plan to address the factors that may lead to inappropriate medication use and potential adverse events for patients.

October 3, 2007 - Crux Biomedical Inc., a medical device firm, announced it recently completed the first implant in the United States of the Crux IVC Filter, as part of its strategy to deliver an inferior vena cava filter (IVC) that better meets physicians’ needs.

October 3, 2007 - Researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center’s S. Mark Taper Foundation Imaging Center announced that they have developed a technique to use coronary CTA in asymptomatic patients at just only 1/10th of the radiation dose.

The center’s ‘Mini-dose CCTA’ uses x-rays produced during only 1/10th of the cardiac cycle and results in 1/10th of the radiation of a full coronary CT angiogram. The cost is often less than the standard coronary CTA, because it is simpler, quicker and less complex to interpret.

October 2, 2007 – Cardiac Science Corp., a provider of advanced cardiac monitoring and defibrillation products, announced today the launch of the Quinton Q-Tel RMS 3.0, which reportedly enhances the Quinton line of cardiac rehabilitation systems to offer connectivity between the rehab department and the hospital’s HIS and EMR system.

October 2, 2007 - Datascope Corp. said that it has developed a new patient monitoring system called NetGuard that monitors the electrical activity of the heart (EKG) in order to protect the unmonitored hospital patient population in the event of a life-threatening heart rhythm.

October 2, 2007 - TherOx Inc., a privately held medical device company, will announce at the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) Conference in Washington D.C. on October 23, the results from its pivotal trial, AMIHOT II (Acute Myocardial Infarction with Hyperoxemic Oxygen Therapy), designed to introduce a new therapy developed by THEROX called SuperOxygenation Therapy.

October 2, 2007 - Abbott said the FDA has granted waived status under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA) for its hand-held i-STAT CHEM8 test cartridge, making it more widely available for use beyond the hospital setting.

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