ECRI Institute, point-of-care ultrasound, POC, guide

As the use of point-of-care (POC) ultrasound continues to expand throughout hospitals and clinics, the ECRI Institute has released a new guide to the modality for practitioners. The document explains the difference between POC and traditional ultrasound, the different types of POC ultrasound units and the numerous applications for the technology.
heart regeneration, zebrafish, epicardium, Duke, Poss

While the human heart can’t heal itself, the zebrafish heart can easily replace cells lost by damage or disease. Now, researchers have discovered properties of a mysterious outer layer of the heart known as the epicardium that could help explain the fish’s remarkable ability to regrow cardiac tissue.

Medtronic plc announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance and U.S. launch of the Euphora Semicompliant Balloon Dilatation Catheter. Euphora is a pre-dilatation therapy used during a stent implantation to reopen a narrowed coronary artery caused by plaque buildup.

Pie Medical Imaging announces its new release of 3mensio Structural Heart, dedicated to planning of structural heart interventions. This new release contains an optimized Mitral workflow and a new Septal Crossing workflow for planning of mitral valve procedures to determine the appropriate access route based on computed tomography (CT) images. These new innovations will be shown at the EuroPCR in Paris, May 19- 22.

RaySafe i2 real-time dose monitoring, radiation dose monitoring, cath lab
RaySafe i2 real-time dose monitoring, radiation dose monitoring, cath lab

Physicians and staff working in cath labs are constantly exposed to direct X-ray beams and scatter radiation. Traditionally cath lab staff wear radiation badges to record exposure, but these only provide historical data, long after the exposures have taken place. To be meaningful and change habits to reduce exposure, some labs have adopted real-time dose recording systems, which all staff to see the doses they are receiving so they can literally take a step back to reduce their dose. 
gene therapy, stem cells, heart failure, mutations, Mount Sinai, Hajjar

Gene therapy can clip out genetic material linked to heart failure and replace it with normal genes, according to a study from the Cardiovascular Research Center at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. The study is published in the April 29 edition of Nature Communications.

New technology developed at the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) may extend the benefits of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to many patients whose access to MRI is currently limited. A redesign of the wire at the core of the leads carrying signals between implanted medical devices and their target structures significantly reduces the generation of heat that occurs when standard wires are exposed to the radiofrequency (RF) energy used in MRI. The novel system is described in a paper published in the online Nature journal Scientific Reports.

Stage 3 MU, stage 3meaningful use, patient engagement

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) gathered public comments on its Stage 3 Meaningful Use (MU) requirements through May 30. The third and final set of MU rules are a core part of the plan to reform the American healthcare by leveraging health information technology (IT) to help reduce costs, eliminate redundancies, and convert from a fee-for-service to a fee-for-performance reimbursement system. 
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