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BehindTheMedspeak: 'You're better off having your [cardiac] arrest at Nordstrom'

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2008-01-03 16:01:00 by bookofjoe in bookofjoe
...cardiac arrests Dr. Leslie A. Saxon (chief of cardiology at the University of Southern California and author of an editorial accompanying the study), speaking on her cellphone, told New York Times reporter Denise Grady, "You're better off having your arrest at Nordstrom, where I'm standing right now, because there are 15 people around me You...
 
Tags: hospital characteristics, hospital, in-hospital cardiac arrests, cardiac, cardiac arrests, shock, shock patients, patients, cardiac patients
 
 
 
 
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Reliant Noninvasive Cardiac Output Monitor Gets FDA OK

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2008-01-24 17:42:26 by Michael in Medgadget
...cardiac output equal or better to traditional Swan-Ganz catheter. The device functions via a proprietary NICOM technology, that is based on a traditional bioimpedance analysis (changes in voltage of electrical currents traversing the patient's chest), plus BIOREACTANCE technology, an analysis of frequency related effects The NICOM ICU...
 
Tags: relationship cheetah, relationship, cheetah, cheetah nicom system, invasive, invasive pac, cardiac output, nicom system, non-invasive cardiac output
 
 
 
 
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Vicor and US Army Team on New Cardiac Monitor

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2008-02-04 05:18:24 by Michael in Medgadget
...Cardiac Analyzer from Vicor Technologies , Inc. (Boca Raton, FL) is promoted by the company as a device that can stratify patients' risk to die from Sudden Cardiac Death (SCD) within a six month time frame. Moreover, the company believes that its device, which collects all the data within a twenty minute test, that can be administered in a...
 
Tags: pd2i, pd2i cardiac analyzer, analyzer, predict risk, risk, predict, ventricular tachyarrhythmic events, army, patients
 
 
 
 
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St. Jude Introduces Merlin@home Transmitter for Monitoring of Implanted Cardiac Devices

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2008-07-25 08:15:05 by Michael in Medgadget
...cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillator) and Current RF ICD devices (profiled by us back in September, 2007 St. Jude explains: The transmitter supports the St. Jude Medical Current(R) RF and Promote(R) RF family of devices and works in conjunction with the St. Jude Medical data management system, Merlin(TM).net Patient Care Network...
 
Tags: cardiac devices, transmitter, devices, monitors cardiac devices, data, data transmission, device data, merlinhome transmitter, cardiac
 
 
 
 
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FloWave 1000 Monitor Promises Noninvasive Cardiac Output

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2008-03-07 08:15:24 by Michael in Medgadget
...cardiac output monitoring. Woolsthorpe Technologies , a Brentwood, Tenn. company, is reporting that its hemodynamics device FloWave 1000 is now being evaluated in clinical trials in Vanderbilt University Medical Center and in Saint Thomas Research Institute in Nashville, and in the Texas Heart Institute in Houston. The device, based on a...
 
Tags: noninvasive cardiac output, cardiac output, hemodynamics device flowave, device, texas heart institute, company, heart, secret proprietary algorithm, perky press releases
 
 
 
 
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PreOp Cardiac Eval Tool and Reference

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2008-06-04 16:28:42 by palmdoc in The Palmdoc Chronicles
...cardiac evaluation algorithm handy I soon decided that additional topics would be helpful. So I added materials from the ACC guideline along with ICSI and ACCP guidance on the topics of Perioperative Medical Therapies (i.e. periop beta blockers, etc.), Non-cardiac Testing appropriate in a presurgical evaluation (i.e. EKG, CXR, CBC, etc.), and...
 
Tags: palm pda application, application, care pda tool, additional topics, perioperative medical therapies, american heart assoc, preop eval tool, guideline, periop beta blockers
 
 
 
 
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Cardiac Electrophysiology Goes Robotic and 3D with CoHesion

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2008-07-03 22:09:48 by Michael in Medgadget
...cardiac arrhythmia procedure. The new CoHesion module imports the EnSite System's 3D cardiac chamber model with anatomic labeling into the Sensei system's main navigation window, allowing physicians to see the location of Hansen Medical's Artisan(TM) Control Catheters within the heart in 3D The EnSite System offers state of the art technology...
 
Tags: ensite system, ensite system offers, ensite, ensite system technologies, cohesion, control, control catheters, system, control catheter
 
 
 
 
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St. Jude Medical Gets FDA OK for Cardiac Image Integration Software

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2008-01-17 03:52:31 by Michael in Medgadget
...cardiac chamber and then are located or "sensed" by the EnSite System, which records electrical information and creates a rendering of the chamber anatomy St. Jude Medical will feature its EnSite Fusion at the Boston Atrial Fibrillation Symposium, which starts tomorrow Press release : St. Jude Medical Announces U.S. Clearance for Cardiac...
 
Tags: ensite fusion result, ensite fusion, ensite, ensite system, jude medical, model, chamber model, fused model, original ensite model
 
 
 
 
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Motorized Fabric for Cardiac Assistance

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2008-02-14 18:04:46 by Michael in Medgadget
...cardiac assist devices suffer from a number of problems including immune system attacks, destruction of blood cells by the pump, and others. At Leeds University, researchers have created a webbed fabric, aka artificial myocardium, that can contract and squeeze the heart from outside, while not coming directly in contact with blood. The...
 
Tags: web device, heart diseases, heart, device, davids mechanical rig, blood cells, rig, blood, team intends