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Medtronic ’s Claria MRI Quad CRT-D SureScan with EffectivCRT Approved by FDA
Medtronic just announced that its Claria MRI Quad Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Defibrillator (CRT-D) SureScan implant has been approved for use on patients with heart failure. The “MRI” in the name of the device indicates that its sa...
Source: Medgadget - November 14, 2016 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Editors Tags: Cardiology Source Type: blogs
BIOTRONIK Releases Most Powerful Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator in U.S.
BIOTRONIK is releasing the world’s most powerful implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) in the United States. The Inventra HF-T cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillator (CRT-D) can deliver 42 joules of energy in one punch to jolt...
Source: Medgadget - November 7, 2016 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Editors Tags: Cardiac Surgery Cardiology Source Type: blogs
Arterys 4D Blood Flow MRI Imaging System Cleared by FDA
The FDA has granted clearance to Arterys, a San Francisco firm, for its cardiac flow assessment software. The technology uses data gathered during 1.5 or 3.0 Tesla MRI exams to understand the blood flow going in and out of the heart and nearby vascul...
Source: Medgadget - November 7, 2016 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Editors Tags: Cardiac Surgery Cardiology Radiology Source Type: blogs
New Technique Reveals Ultrasound ’s Hidden Details, in Color! (VIDEO)
This study proposes a framework for characterizing scattering behavior and visualizing the results as color coding of the B-scan image. The methodology matches a model of pulse-echo formation from typical situations to the mathematics of Gaussian wei...
Source: Medgadget - November 3, 2016 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Editors Tags: Anesthesiology Cardiac Surgery Cardiology Critical Care Emergency Medicine Ob/Gyn Radiology Urology Source Type: blogs
Applying Human Centered Design to IV Infusions: Interview with Dr. Beth Kolko, CEO of Shift Labs
With the aspiration to address healthcare gaps around globe by applying human centered design to medical technologies, Shift Labs, a 2015 Y Combinator company, is first tackling the infusion market with DripAssist. Formerly known as Drip Clip, as rep...
Source: Medgadget - November 2, 2016 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Michael Batista Tags: Anesthesiology Cardiology Critical Care Emergency Medicine Exclusive Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
Xprecia Stride Handheld Coagulation Analyzer Cleared for Sale in U.S.
Siemens won FDA clearance for its Xprecia Stride handheld coagulation analyzer, a device designed to speed up testing of patients on warfarin, an anti-coagulant, and make the procedure a bit safer.
It provides Prothrombin Time International Normal...
Source: Medgadget - October 5, 2016 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Editors Tags: Cardiology Medicine Source Type: blogs
GE Healthcare Launches Vivid iq Portable Cardiovascular Ultrasound
GE Healthcare has recently announced the global launch of its new generation of high-end portable compact cardiovascular ultrasounds, the Vivid iq.
The Vivid iq improves upon the company’s already available Vivid q portable scanner by being 10 ...
Source: Medgadget - September 23, 2016 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Wouter Stomp Tags: Anesthesiology Cardiac Surgery Cardiology Critical Care Emergency Medicine Ob/Gyn Pediatrics Radiology Source Type: blogs
Pericardial Effusion
Gross enlargement of cardiac outline due to pericardial effusion
Cardiothoracic ratio is grossly increased due to the large pericardial effusion. In this case there was underlying severe right ventricular endomyocardial fibrosis as well.
Prior the era of ubiquitous availability of echocardiography, pericardial aspiration followed by instillation of air into the pericardial cavity and taking of repeat X-ray was often done to assess the pericardial thickness. Such films could also sometimes pick up the outline of an intrapericardial mass. Computerized tomographic (CT) scans are quite useful to assess pericardial thickness.Â...
Source: Cardiophile MD - September 15, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Prof. Dr. Johnson Francis, MD, DM, FACC, FRCP Edin, FRCP London Tags: Cardiology X-ray Source Type: blogs
Optical Defibrillation to Soothe Arrhythmic Hearts
While electric cardiac defibrillators are successful life-saving devices that have been used in practice for many years now, they are extremely shocking (forgive the pun) and potentially harmful to cardiac tissue when they fire. A new approach, that ...
Source: Medgadget - September 13, 2016 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Editors Tags: Cardiac Surgery Cardiology Source Type: blogs
SOMATOM Drive, a Newly FDA Cleared High Speed General Purpose CT
Siemens announced that the FDA cleared its new SOMATOM Drive dual source CT scanner, a general purpose imaging system for use in a variety of cases, including cardiology, EM, and pediatrics.
The company is touting its Straton MX Sigma X-ray tubes, Si...
Source: Medgadget - August 30, 2016 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Editors Tags: Cardiology Critical Care Emergency Medicine Ob/Gyn Pediatrics Radiology Surgery Thoracic Surgery Urology Source Type: blogs
Nanoparticles Help Platelets Stick Together to Stop Bleeding
Nanoparticles (green) help form clots in an injured liver. The researchers added color to the scanning electron microscopy image after it was taken. Credit: Erin Lavik, Ph.D.
At this week’s 252nd National Meeting & Exposition of the Americ...
Source: Medgadget - August 24, 2016 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Editors Tags: Anesthesiology Cardiac Surgery Cardiology Critical Care Military Medicine Nanomedicine Source Type: blogs
Arineta SpotLight CT Dedicated Cardiac Scanner Coming to U.S.
Arineta, an Israeli firm, won FDA clearance to bring its SpotLight CT cardiac scanner technology to U.S. shores. SpotLight CT is a system designed specifically for cardiac imaging and is not a general purpose whole-body CT scanner. By focusing on i...
Source: Medgadget - August 18, 2016 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Editors Tags: Cardiac Surgery Cardiology Thoracic Surgery Vascular Surgery Source Type: blogs
The spectacular incompetence of third-party payers
To paraphrase Tolstoy, all competence is alike, but every incompetence is incompetence in its own way. Every time I think I’ve seen the horizon of incompetence, I’m dealt a surprise. The sun never sets on incompetence. In health care, incompetence can be found in odd places, such as three recent examples I encountered with third-party payers.
Case 1: Downgrading caviar to boiled salmon
A patient was referred for a CT angiogram run off — which is a CT scan of the arteries of the belly, pelvis, both legs, and feet — a very detailed and costly study. The cardiologist suspected a pseudoaneurysm of the femoral a...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 16, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/dr-saurabh-jha" rel="tag" > Dr. Saurabh Jha < /a > Tags: Physician Radiology Source Type: blogs
Welcome to My World: Med Wreck
By HANS DEUVEFELT, MD
Part of a series on primary care challenges and their solutions.
Medication reconciliation is something we do every day, in the clinic and in the hospital. It shouldn’t be as hard as it is.
A patient with multiple medical problems returns for a fifteen minute quarterly visit. He saw his cardiologist three weeks ago and was told to double his metoprolol.
There are two ways to catch this change: when the cardiologist’s office note comes in, or as we check the patient in for his visit.
The cardiologist’s office note, generated by one of the leading EMRs, runs seven pages and contains entries a...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 10, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Metrics Should Be About Physician Outcomes
By NIRAN AL-AGBA, MD
Quality measures began as tools to quantify the healthcare process, using outcomes, patient perceptions, and organizational structures associated with the provision of high-quality health care. Overall, the goals should focus on delivery of care that is effective, safe, efficient, and equitable. Did you notice a particular word missing? Yes, I missed the word physician too, because they have been left out of the conversation entirely.
Measuring quality healthcare by a patient lab result is like recording a patient’s temperature by waving the thermometer near their face. One has little to do wit...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 8, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: 2016 Town Hall Source Type: blogs
