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ResMed Releases World ’s First Tube-Down Nasal Cradle CPAP Mask
ResMed is releasing a new nasal cradle CPAP mask that features a front-facing tube that points downward. The AirFit N30 mask is the first of its kind, as similar masks typically have the air tube connect on top of the head, which makes them uncomfort...
Source: Medgadget - October 21, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Cardiology Medicine Source Type: blogs
Interview with a Father of Modern Surgical Robotics, Dr. Yulun Wang
Founder of both InTouch Health and Computer Motion, Dr. Yulun Wang is considered one of the fathers of modern surgical robotics. Originally a graduate of University of California, Santa Barbara, Dr. Wang developed AESOP (Automated Endoscopic System f...
Source: Medgadget - October 17, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Exclusive Surgery Source Type: blogs
Contact-Free Baby Monitor Uses White Noise to Monitor Breathing
Echolocation technologies can detect objects by measuring how long it takes sound to bounce off them. This is used to detect submarines underwater, but now to also measure a child’s breathing while delivering soothing, and sleep inducing, white...
Source: Medgadget - October 16, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Anesthesiology Cardiology Critical Care Diagnostics Medicine Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
Medtronic Launches Evolut Pro+ TAVR System: Interview with Dr. Pieter Kappetein
Last month, Medtronic announced receipt of U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for and launch of the Evolut Pro+ TAVR (Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement) System to treat patients with symptomatic severe aortic stenosis. Aortic steno...
Source: Medgadget - October 15, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Cardiac Surgery Cardiology Exclusive Source Type: blogs
FDA Clears geko Muscle Pump Activator to Prevent VTE
Venous thromboembolism (VTE) too often strikes bedridden patients in the hospital, and this is one of the main reasons that patients are put back on their feet as soon as possible. Inflatable wraps placed around the legs, which can raise the pressure...
Source: Medgadget - October 15, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Cardiac Surgery Cardiology Critical Care Medicine Rehab Source Type: blogs
iRhythm-Verily Partnership: Interview with iRhythm CEO Kevin King
iRhythm and Verily announced a partnership last month to “co-develop solutions intended to provide early warning, diagnosis and management for patients, particularly for those with silent or undiagnosed AF.” We spoke with iRhythm CEO Kevi...
Source: Medgadget - October 11, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Ben Ouyang Tags: Cardiology Diagnostics Exclusive irhythm verily Source Type: blogs
Light Therapy Device to Treat Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
Carbon monoxide (CO) is one of the most common substances that people are poisoned by. It has no smell and is invisible to the naked eye, but can cause severe damage to tissues and lead to death. Patients who have already suffered significant lung da...
Source: Medgadget - October 11, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Anesthesiology Cardiology Critical Care Emergency Medicine Public Health Source Type: blogs
Gore CARDIOFORM ASD Cleared in Europe for Atrial Septal Defects
Gore won the European CE Mark for its GORE CARDIOFORM ASD Occluder, a device designed for percutaneous, transcatheter closure of ostium secundum atrial defects (ASDs). The occluder recently completed a clinical study involving 125 patients with ASD, ...
Source: Medgadget - October 8, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Cardiac Surgery Cardiology Radiology Source Type: blogs
Printing Custom Flexible Electronics Directly Onto Skin, Bandages, Medical Devices
Flexible electronics have the potential to help monitor, and even modulate, a number of physiological parameters. While stick-on heart monitors can be manufactured as one-size-fits-all, in applications such as electronic bandages that can monitor and...
Source: Medgadget - October 3, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Cardiology Diagnostics Materials Medicine Sports Medicine Source Type: blogs
Disc Pump for Less Obtrusive Ambulatory Blood Pressure Systems
TTP Ventus, the UK-based developer of the Disc Pump, has recently begun working on a new application for this technology – ambulatory blood pressure systems. The company claims that the Disc Pump, which is a miniaturized, quiet, and highly efficien...
Source: Medgadget - October 1, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Anesthesiology Cardiology Diagnostics Exclusive Medicine Source Type: blogs
Hexoskin Shirt Proving Itself for Lung Function Measurement
A few years ago Hexoskin, a Canadian startup, announced the development of a sensor-packed t-shirt that can measure a number of physiological parameters in real-time. It’s novel because it doesn’t require the wearer to put on individual s...
Source: Medgadget - October 1, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Cardiology Sports Medicine Source Type: blogs
Nanoparticles Inside Samples of Mucus to Measure COPD Development
Management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) suffers not only from a lack of effective therapies, but also from an inability to track the disease’s progression. Spirometers that measure how much air patients can displace using the...
Source: Medgadget - October 1, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Cardiology Critical Care Diagnostics Materials Medicine Nanomedicine Pathology Source Type: blogs
New Chip for Microwave Imaging of Body
Today’s clinicians are limited to a few imaging modalities, primarily X-ray, CT, MRI, and ultrasound. Microwaves, in principle, can also be used as a useful way to look inside the body. Microwave radiation is non-ionizing, so should be safer th...
Source: Medgadget - September 30, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Cardiology Diagnostics Materials Neurology Oncology Pathology Radiology Source Type: blogs
Apps for Healthcare Monitoring: Interview with Artem Petrov, CEO of Reinvently
Reinvently, a mobile app development company based in Palo Alto, California, has created a number of healthcare apps, including those which collect, collate, and display data from wearable medical devices. The combination of a wearable device and a m...
Source: Medgadget - September 25, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Anesthesiology Cardiac Surgery Cardiology Critical Care Emergency Medicine Exclusive Vascular Surgery Source Type: blogs
Bathroom Scale Combined with ECG for At Home Heart Failure Monitoring
Conclusion: This work demonstrates that high quality BCG signals can be collected in a home environment and used to detect the clinical state of HF patients. Significance: In future work, a clinician/caregiver can be introduced to the system so that ...
Source: Medgadget - September 24, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Cardiology Source Type: blogs
