March 29, 2007 — Israeli scientists have developed a portable electrocardiograph machine that can transmit highly detailed data on heart activity to physicians by mobile phone. The CardioSen'C is considered an advance in portable heart-monitoring devices because it uses many more electrodes to measure heart activity and is equipped to communicate the results instantaneously to a cardiologist.

March 29, 2007 — Access Scientific introduced its Wand All-in-One Micro-Access Safety Introducer at the recent annual meeting of the Society for Interventional Radiology (SIR). The Wand is a unique, proprietary introducer that may provide faster and easier micro-access for all types of vascular access.

The company is preparing to seek FDA 510(k) market clearance for The Wand. The device is protected by patents and patents pending, domestic and international.

March 29, 2007 — At the ACC this week Dr. Nabil Dib, M.D., M.Sc., director of Cardiovascular Cell Therapy at University of California San Diego, reported how 23 patients in an FDA trial were safely transformed from advanced heart failure to recovery.

March 29, 2007 —Data on Abiomed Inc.’s Impella 2.5 were presented at the American College of Cardiology's (ACC) 56th Annual Scientific Sessions by Drs. Krischan D. Sjauw, Maurice Remmelink, Jan Baan, Jr., Rene J. van der Schaaf, Marije M. Vis, Karel T. Koch, Jan G. Tijssen, Jan J. Piek, Robbert J. de Winter, and Jose P. Henriques.

GE Healthcare showcased the industry’s first-ever computed tomography (CT) scanner that maintains outstanding image quality while reducing a patient’s radiation exposure by up to 70 percent for diagnostic cardiac scans.

Signalife's ambulatory 12-lead ECG system compresses and reduces noise prior to amplifying the ECG signal, eliminating the need to filter the signal after amplification. This means that 100 percent of the signal is preserved, allowing physicians to detect shifts in the ST segment as small as 5 microvolts (a 100 microvolt shift is considered statistically significant).

Siemens Medical Solutions Service Division has added a new product to its portfolio of services. Remote CardiacIT Administrator, available on syngo Dynamics Server or Acom.Net, is a server maintenance package that proactively ensures servers stay up and running, sparing cardiology facilities from costly downtime.

GE Healthcare became the world market share leader in the compact ultrasound industry in 2006, as cited in a recent industry report issued by Klein Biomedical Consultants, an internationally recognized source of ultrasound market and trends. GE was the market leader with a 43 percent share, according to the report. GE announced the company's global Compact Ultrasound business grew sales to $174 million in 2006, which represents 74 percent growth compared to the prior year.

March 28, 2007 - With an estimated 70 million Americans currently living with cardiovascular disease, the demand for services in the catheterization ("cath") lab continues to escalate. In fact, an estimated 4.21 million patient cases were performed at 1,970 cardiac cath lab sites in 2006, representing a 9 percent increase from 3.85 million in 2002.

The results of Boston Scientific's pivotal SPIRIT III clinical trial reaffirmed prior safety and efficacy data for the market-leading TAXUS Express2 Paclitaxel-Eluting Coronary Stent System and provided early positive data for the XIENCE V (PROMUS) Everolimus-Eluting Coronary Stent System.

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