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Clarian Cardiovascular offers transradial cardiac catheterization

Clarian Cardiovascular has established the Midwest’s only Transradial Center of Excellence in an effort to offer patients a catheterization procedure that significantly reduces recovery time and improves patient outcomes – transradial cardiac catheterization.

9 Oct 2009

Therapeutic hypothermia after CPR improves survival and lessens brain damage

Cooling a person's body within six hours of cardiac arrest with successful CPR might improve survival and lessen brain damage, according to a new Cochrane review.

9 Oct 2009

Hansen Medical to exhibit its Lynx Robotic Ablation Catheter at the workshop on Cardiac Arrhythmias

Hansen Medical, Inc. will showcase its new Lynx Robotic Ablation Catheter for the first time at Venice Arrhythmias 2009, the 11th International Workshop on Cardiac Arrhythmias, Oct. 4-7, in Venice, Italy. The Lynx catheter is a small, flexible irrigated ablation catheter for customers in Europe to offer stability during the treatment of Atrial Fibrillation (AF).

5 Oct 2009

Society of Interventional Radiology offers intensive five-day course

The Society of Interventional Radiology presents Catheter Lysis of Thromboembolic Stroke (CLOTS)-an intensive five-day course featuring top interventional radiologists, neurointerventionists, neurologists and neuroradiologists offering doctors the opportunity to gain and/or upgrade skills to incorporate acute ischemic stroke care into their practice.

1 Oct 2009

Defects in original version of Neuron 6F 070 delivery catheter: Penumbra initiates voluntary field removal

Penumbra is initiating a voluntary Field Removal of the original version of Neuron 6F 070 Delivery Catheter. For these catheters, Penumbra has received feedback from some users that the catheter could kink or ovalize in certain anatomical situations.

30 Sep 2009

Cordis Corporation, Boston Scientific enter agreement to resolve Palmaz infringement suit

Cordis Corporation (“Cordis”) announced today that it has reached an agreement with Boston Scientific (“Boston”) resolving its Palmaz infringement suit relating to Boston’s NIR stent, settling several other cardiology-related cases relating to patents in the Ding, Kastenhofer, Palmaz, and Fontirroche patent families, and exchanging paid-up licenses for certain intellectual properties.

30 Sep 2009

Excelsior's SwabCap launched at the 23rd Association for Vascular Access conference

Excelsior Medical, one of the leading manufacturers of pre-filled catheter flush syringes and syringe pump systems, announced that it has launched a major new product: the SwabCap™ Luer Access Valve Disinfection Cap.

28 Sep 2009

Increasing insulin levels can aid muscle building in the elderly

Recently, scientists have recognized that loss of responsiveness to insulin plays a major role in the loss of physical strength that occurs as people grow older. Now, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston researchers have demonstrated that by increasing insulin levels above the normal range in elderly test subjects, they can restore the impaired muscle-building process responsible for age-related physical weakness.

28 Sep 2009

First heart surgery using MECC system completed

MAQUET Cardiovascular announced today that Johannes Bonatti, M.D., Professor of Surgery and Director of Coronary Surgery and Advanced Coronary Interventions at the University of Maryland Heart Center in Baltimore, has completed the world's first use of the MAQUET Minimized ExtraCorporeal Circulation (MECC) system during a successful robotic and fully endoscopic heart surgery. The new cardiopulmonary bypass technology is the first major advancement in perfusion technology in the last decade. It is designed to minimize the effects of traditional heart surgery and aid in minimally-invasive heart surgery without the need to stop the patient's heart from beating.

28 Sep 2009

Cook Medical launches next-generation IVC filter delivery system for treating pulmonary embolism

Physicians can now navigate even the most tortuous anatomy with greater speed and safety with the next-generation inferior vena cava (IVC) filter delivery system introduced today by Cook Medical at TCT 2009. The release of the NavAlign™ delivery system marks the 20th anniversary of Cook’s first IVC filter and further advances the treatment of pulmonary embolism (PE), a life-threatening condition caused by blood clots in the lungs that affects thousands of Americans annually.

24 Sep 2009

Z-Medica launches the QuikClot Interventional hemostatic bandage for use during catheterization procedures

Z-Medica Corporation, a medical device company developing innovative hemostatic agents, today announced the availability of the QuikClot® Interventional™ hemostatic bandage, on display at booth #1338 at the 21st annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) scientific symposium, sponsored by the Cardiovascular Research Foundation.

From Medica Corporation 24 Sep 2009

Pathway Medical's Jetstream G2 NXT catheter boosts its growth by 172 percent over the last two quarters

Pathway Medical Technologies, Inc., an innovator of endovascular treatments for peripheral vascular disease (PVD), today announced a 172 percent growth over the last two quarters with its Jetstream peripheral revascularization catheters at more than 150 centers of excellence in the United States.

23 Sep 2009

FemSoft from Rochester Medical included in the UK Drug Tariff

Rochester Medical Corporation (Nasdaq: ROCM) today announced that the Company's FemSoft(R) Insert has been approved for inclusion in Part IX of the UK Drug Tariff as a prescription product which is reimbursable.

22 Sep 2009

AFib ablated using visually-guided laser balloon catheter

Physicians at The Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York became the first in the U.S. to ablate atrial fibrillation using a visually-guided laser balloon catheter.

21 Sep 2009

Modified catheter to prevent patient injuries

Though rare, IV contrast material administration can sometimes result in patient injury. However researchers have developed a modified catheter that may prevent such events from occurring, according to a study in the October issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR).

21 Sep 2009

Analysis project inflation rates for healthcare supplies to remain unchanged through 2010

Inflation rates for healthcare supplies are projected to remain unchanged through 2010, according to an analysis released by the Premier healthcare alliance.

18 Sep 2009

Northeast Pennsylvania healthcare facilities collaborate to eliminate laboratory errors

Healthcare facilities in northeast Pennsylvania have come together to reduce and eliminate laboratory errors due to specimen mislabeling. Pocono Medical Center helped to spearhead the effort when they noticed they were reporting a large number of mislabeled lab specimens at their facility that coincided with data delivered in a presentation by the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority.

17 Sep 2009

Urovalve files patent for new universal catheter-inserter

Urovalve announced today that the Company has filed a patent to protect its new product offering in development that facilitates insertion of catheters, such as a Foley catheter.

17 Sep 2009

The first successful implantation of the GDS Accucinch System for mitral valve repair

Guided Delivery Systems, Inc. ("GDS") announced the first successful percutaneous implantation of the GDS Accucinch(R) System for mitral valve repair. The procedure was performed by Prof. Dr. med. Joachim Schofer of Medizinisches Versorgungszentrum, Hamburg University Cardiovascular Center in Hamburg, Germany. The GDS Accucinch System significantly reduced the patient's mitral regurgitation without requiring open heart surgery.

16 Sep 2009

FDA clears Hansen Medical's Sensei X Robotic Catheter System

Furthering the medical robotic frontier in electrophysiology (EP), Hansen Medical, Inc. (NASDAQ: HNSN) today announced it has received U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) clearance for its next generation Sensei® X Robotic Catheter System and it introduced the Artisan Extend™ Control Catheter. The company also introduced the Lynx™ Robotic Ablation Catheter, a small, flexible irrigated ablation catheter for customers in Europe.

16 Sep 2009

Catheters News and Research

Clarian Cardiovascular offers transradial cardiac catheterization

Therapeutic hypothermia after CPR improves survival and lessens brain damage

Hansen Medical to exhibit its Lynx Robotic Ablation Catheter at the workshop on Cardiac Arrhythmias

Society of Interventional Radiology offers intensive five-day course

Defects in original version of Neuron 6F 070 delivery catheter: Penumbra initiates voluntary field removal

Cordis Corporation, Boston Scientific enter agreement to resolve Palmaz infringement suit

Excelsior's SwabCap launched at the 23rd Association for Vascular Access conference

Increasing insulin levels can aid muscle building in the elderly

First heart surgery using MECC system completed

Cook Medical launches next-generation IVC filter delivery system for treating pulmonary embolism

Z-Medica launches the QuikClot Interventional hemostatic bandage for use during catheterization procedures

Pathway Medical's Jetstream G2 NXT catheter boosts its growth by 172 percent over the last two quarters

FemSoft from Rochester Medical included in the UK Drug Tariff

AFib ablated using visually-guided laser balloon catheter

Modified catheter to prevent patient injuries

Analysis project inflation rates for healthcare supplies to remain unchanged through 2010

Northeast Pennsylvania healthcare facilities collaborate to eliminate laboratory errors

Urovalve files patent for new universal catheter-inserter

The first successful implantation of the GDS Accucinch System for mitral valve repair

FDA clears Hansen Medical's Sensei X Robotic Catheter System

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