September 8, 2008 - A new medtech spin-off from CSA Medical Inc. is reportedly about to give cancer patients and their caregivers a reason to breathe more easily.
ZOLL will feature CodeNet, reportedly the first software system that allows hospital teams to better document, manage and review a cardiac arrest event and resuscitation information. CodeNet brings new improvements and efficiencies in data capture, event time synchronization and case and aggregate reporting. The software time stamps logged events and synchronizes these times with defibrillator data, aiming to provide clinicians with a complete and accurate timeline of an entire cardiac arrest event.
ZOLL will feature its array of defibrillators at TCT 2008.
The R Series offers smart tools to help clinicians improve CPR performance. It also features both ZOLL's Real CPR Help and patented See-Thru CPR technology. See-Thru CPR helps minimize interruptions in CPR - one of the key recommendations of the American Heart Association's guidelines for advanced cardiac life support - by extracting CPR artifact and showing a "filtered" ECG on the defibrillator screen. It allows rescuers to see organized cardiac rhythm without stopping compressions.
Siemens Healthcare has expanded its digital radiography portfolio with the addition of Ysio, a new generation digital radiography system with a wireless detector (wi-D) for maximum positioning flexibility.
Nucletron has developed its latest innovation in image-guided adaptive brachytherapy for cervical cancer, Oncentra GYN.
Oncentra GYN combines the intracavitary and interstitial technique for tumors with unfavorable topography. Oncentra GYN supports fully the GEC-ESTRO recommendations for gynecologic brachytherapy as well as all clinical protocols.
September 8, 2008 - DMS Imaging said another mobile unit has been awarded a three-year term of accreditation in digital mammography as the result of a recent survey by the American College of Radiology (ACR).
In partnership with rural hospitals, this particular route provides digital mammography mobile services to women in Cooperstown, Grand Forks, Mc Ville, Northwood, Valley City and Wahpeton in North Dakota; and Ada and Morris in Minnesota.
September 8, 2008 - ContextVision recently said it has agreements with three undisclosed X-ray OEMs for the delivery of ContextVision’s GOPView XR2-ADi product.
The recipient of Frost & Sullivan’s Global Enabling Technology of the Year award for image enhancement in 2007, GOPView XR2-ADi is an add-on module to ContextVision’s GOPView XR2 software and increases an image’s overall quality.
September 8, 2008 - Toshiba Teli America Inc. said today it is shipping the T24MSA001-MD medical-grade 24-inch LCD color widescreen monitor.
Featuring full HD (1080p) resolution, this new LCD assures the most natural reproduction of video images and the highest level of differentiation during such critical applications as diagnostic analysis, video endoscopy and surgery. Users also reportedly benefit from its 800:1 contrast, 500cd/m2 brightness and the versatility of picture-in-picture functionality.
September 8, 2008 - In the study "Neural predictors of moment-to-moment fluctuations in cognitive flexibility" published in the latest issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Andrew Leber, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology at UNH, used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to explain how the brain can predict when people are efficient multitaskers.
September 8, 2008 - Hologic is the first diagnostic medical device manufacturer to receive FDA clearance to incorporate the World Health Organization (WHO) FRAX 10-year fracture risk calculator into its bone densitometer systems.
Hologic has built FRAX technology, a tool to help healthcare providers identify and proactively treat patients with a high risk of bone fractures due to low bone mass and other risk factors, into its Discovery and Explorer bone densitometer systems.
