June 13, 2007 - Cordis Endovascular announced at the 61st Annual Meeting of the Society for Vascular Surgery the worldwide launch of the Cordis AVIATOR Plus Balloon Dilatation Catheter for use in angioplasty procedures for patients with carotid and or renal artery blockages.

June 13, 2007 - Researchers released a study at SNM's 54th Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., in which the combination of SPECT and CT images fused together assists physicians in more accurately diagnosing coronary artery disease.

June 13 – A report in the Mayo Clinic Proceedings, found that it is safe for patients to receive a coronary angiography on the same day that they are undergoing elective valvular heart surgery.


It may sound like a good thing, but most people know that when an item claims to be “one size fits all,” it usually means “one size fits all… kind of.” Apparently, as in the clothing industry, this is equally true in the world of enterprise PACS.
“You can’t make everybody happy,” said Tim Masters, PACS manager for Continental Division HCA of Denver.
Four years ago, Masters was in charge of implementing GE’s Centricity PACS at Sky Ridge Medical Center, a then brand-new 136-bed hospital on the outskirts of Denver in Lone Tree, CO.


The company offers a monitor that uses a continuous wave doppler that can look right down into the aortic valve to check the size of the valve, and it can also look at the pulmonary valve. The monitor can measure stroke volume and evaluate fluid input, so as to avoid overloading the patient.

June 12, 2007 - Ablation Frontiers, Inc., developer and manufacturer of three-dimensional catheters for the treatment of atrial fibrillation (AF), announced that it received the CE Mark for its Cardiac Ablation System consisting of a portfolio of anatomical based catheters and a uniquely designed radiofrequency (RF) energy delivery system, for which the company initiated the first commercial use of its Ablation System this year at key international cardiac centers throughout the European Union and other International markets that recognize the CE Mark.

June 12, 2007 — GE Healthcare introduced its ViewPoint Vascular comprehensive ultrasound data management solution for vascular labs at the Society of Vascular Surgeons (SVS)/Society of Vascular Ultrasound (SVU) annual meeting in Baltimore, Maryland.

June 12, 2007- Siemens Medical Solutions USA and Partners HealthCare announced that they have finalized an agreement in which the two organizations will collaborate to develop innovative Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) infrastructure in healthcare IT.

June 12, 2007 — Response Biomedical Corporation today announced that it has been granted a medical device license by Health Canada to market its RAMP NT-proBNP Test.

The company currently markets the product in Europe and has applied for FDA clearance of the test in the United States.

June 12, 2007 - Recent findings show that the majority of people untrained in how to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and even many trained emergency personnel, do not push with enough force to properly administer CPR.

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