With a high performance portable ultrasound design, the echo Ultrasound System provides unique advantages in the field of echocardiography. The system provides high- quality spatial resolution, high frame rates and sensitive Doppler performance. Based on Terason's Teratech Architecture, the system delivers a portable color doppler imaging platform without sacrificing clinical performance.

The Innova 3131IQ and 2121IQ digital flat panel biplane imaging systems cover the full size of the patient’s lateral and frontal anatomy simultaneously for a variety of cardiovascular and neurovascular image guided interventional procedures. 
With the systems, procedures can be done with fewer X-ray images and contrast injections. Both systems are indicated for use in cardiovascular imaging, diagnostic and interventional procedures and three-dimensional imaging of vessels and soft tissue.

The SpideRX Embolic Protection Device, by ev3 Inc., features the ability to use a separate, preferred guidewire to cross the lesion and a preloaded nitinol filter with a dual-ended catheter for delivery and recovery. Offering a fully rapid exchange system, the SpideRX Device is easy to use in the indicated applications.

The “crash cart” defibrillator-monitor from Cardiac Science is designed specifically for use by medical professionals to respond to cardiac emergencies in hospital settings.
The new device is lightweight, rugged and portable, with resuscitation and pacing therapies designed for use by professionals in medically-supervised environments to respond to cardiac emergencies.

Designed to help physicians access areas of blockage in the coronary arteries and other vessels in the body that may be difficult to reach, Abbott Vascular’s stainless steel specialty catheter, the Asahi Tornus, is engineered to deliver therapeutic, minimally invasive balloon catheters and stents to vessels blocked with dense fibrous fatty plaque. 

Toshiba’s Excelart Vantage ZGV MRI system offers new product sequences, enhanced image quality and features the Mach 8 processor, increasing reconstruction to 1300 images per second. 
The system offers a gradient strength of 33 mT/m (milliTesla per meter), a slew rate of 200 mT/m/ms  and delivers the highest homogeneity of any magnet in the industry over the full 50 cm diameter spherical volume (DSV). Field upgrade kits are available to current Vantage users.

A new automated system that electronically secures, tracks and distributes scrubs, the garments worn by healthcare professionals, was introduced by Cardinal Health Inc.

Designed for fast and efficient response, the Lifeline Emergency Cart is constructed of lightweight polymer and tubular steel for ease in handling during transit and at the code site. An ergonomically placed handle insures maximum control. The convertible, dual-function caster system provides positive control in transit, yet adjusts to full swivel-caster mode.

The OR1 Integrated ORs offer hospitals a turn-key solution that streamlines the entire OR environment by placing total control of integrated systems and equipment functions into the hands of the surgical team.

KARL STORZ implemented its own environmental and device control systems operated by a single touchscreen panel. The icon-based controls of the new OR1 A/V Control System provide intuitive graphic representations of all OR1 image sources and displays, as well as preset system commands.


Although implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) have been around for nearly 20 years, they gained notoriety in 2001 when Vice President Dick Cheney became a high-profile patient who underwent the implantation procedure.


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