The Welch Allyn Holter Systems are software and recorders designed to help caregivers detect abnormalities in a patient's heart rhythm over an extended period of time. The systems improve patient comfort and compliance with their profile and can be configured with the caregivers' choice of both software and recorders, giving access to the electrical activity of a patient's heart, according to the company.

Two different recorders and two software package options are available with the systems. Both reportedly provide data that help streamline workflow in a doctor's office.


When Russ Johnson looks out the windows of San Luis Valley Regional Medical Center he surveys an area of unmatched beauty and natural wonder. His six-county domain in Colorado, southwest of Pueblo, is the size of six states each the size of New Jersey — yet home to fewer than 50,000.
What he wants for Christmas is a cath lab he can call his own.

A blur has occurred in the very place doctors would normally associate with absolute clarity. An overlapping of departmental PACS has occurred, both in how doctors use them on the front end and what the systems actually are on the back end. And whereas radiology and cardiology departments may once have controlled distinct systems for accessing, managing and archiving their own sets of patient images, a trend toward broad enterprise image management is shifting PACS into the IT domain of CIOs and PACS administrators.

Unlike coronary occlusions that are short and small in diameter, occlusions of the superficial femoral arteries (SFAs) tend to be long and large. Nevertheless, recanalizing these occlusions can be a daunting task, and if left untreated, can lead to serious problems for the patient.
According to a paper published in the Journal of Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions, “total occlusions of the femoropopliteal arteries are frequently found in patients with severe claudication or CLI [critical limb ischemia].”

In the cardiac cath lab, success is measured in part by how quickly the patient can ambulate and go home.
With the volume of diagnostic procedures on the rise, hospitals need to get patients through the lab and out the door in a timely manner, according to Paul Buckman, president of St. Jude Medical’s cardiology division. Vascular closure devices are key because, in addition to being more convenient for staff and comfortable for the patient, they allow patients to ambulate sooner than standard manual compression.


Author’s Note: EuroPCR definitely has its own flare. The meeting combined education, exhibits and divertissement.
As meetings go, EuroPCR 2006 was definitely different than meetings that take place in the U.S. Drug-eluting stents (DES) dominated the coronary sessions. To put things into perspective, each year EuroPCR organizers collect data from “high-impact” peer reviewed journals to create a booklet of randomized trials. DES made up 36 pages of this booklet.


For some people, a new life focus is waiting just around the corner.
For Jerry Brody, it was there for 30 years — he used to drive past Children’s Hospital & Research Center Oakland (CHRCO) (Oakland, CA) on the way to work every day as a chemical engineer for Chevron. He also took his three children to the hospital for check-ups when they were growing up.

The day our May issue went to press, April 26, the Heart Rhythm Society held a telebriefing for the media to announce release of its draft policy recommendations for pacemaker and ICD performance. Final guidelines are expected to be published in the October issue of Heart Rhythm Journal, but I believe highlighting some of Dr.

The Infinia Hawkeye 4 combines GE’s Infinia gamma camera with an optimized 4-slice CT to create a SPECT/CT system that produces 5 mm slices with better resolution in reportedly half the scan time of other SPECT/CT systems.
Integrated in the Infinia Hawkeye systems are Xeleris workstations equipped with Ignite technology, designed to enable complete scan-and-review cycle in a single click and has built-in connectivity to a PACS for better workflow.

Providing morphology, function, tissue characterization and 3D coronary anatomy in a single tool, syngo BEAT is available with the Tim (Total imaging matrix) technology application suite.

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