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.

As a professor of surgery and the director of a mitral valve clinic that performs 300 to 400 valve repairs each year (the average for most clinics is 10), all while planning a major departmental move, it’s a wonder how Steven Bolling, M.D., has time to sleep at night.
Yet amidst seminars, surgeries and moving boxes he was able to co-invent a groundbreaking device that treats mitral valve leakage, improving the left ventricle and helping congestive heart failure patients regain lost heart function.

It's almost like taking a stab in the dark, but ablating one or more arrythmias within the human heart is a moment when accuracy is everything and error is irreversible. Which is why visualization during cardiac ablation is one of the greatest challenges for the electrophysiologist performing the procedure.

It’s not uncommon for a cardiologist at University Community Hospital (UCH) in Tampa to walk about two miles to get his job done — that’s not walking to work, but walking at work. But these doctors — now burning valuable time and energy to find and view images and patient data from one lab and department to another — are about to take a quantum leap into 21st-century efficiency as the hospital prepares to open its new, free-standing, all-digital Pepin Heart Hospital and Patel Research Institute.

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