The SureSigns VS3 vital signs monitor by Philips provides caregivers with the information they require in an affordable and easy-to-use package.
Philips SureSigns monitors blend vital measurement and monitoring capabilities with simplicity, clarity, convenience and reliability.
Because the SureSigns VS3 user interface is intuitive and easy to use, users can focus on what matters most, patient safety and comfort.

Anthro Corp.’s Zido is a compact technology cart, ready to customize for use with a PC, medical equipment or for lab applications.
Equipped with a small sturdy slate blue colored frame, Zido has excellent mobility on four-inch casters. Zido is available in various widths and heights and provides flexibility in creating a cart for small spaces. The grey shelves have a weight capacity of 50 pounds and the entire cart has a 150-pound overall weight limit.

LighthouseMD, a leading provider of revenue cycle management, integrated practice management and EMR solutions for medical groups, recently announced the CareTracker EMR.
The Web-based electronic medical records system allows physicians and nurses to enhance patient care and reduce medical errors using more than 270,000 clinical data elements such as patient symptoms, medical histories, diagnoses, clinical tests and therapies.

Tensys Medical has released the latest generation of the T-Line, the TL-150Plus.
The TL-150Plus provides anesthesiologists with noninvasive beat-to-beat blood pressure giving early warning of hemodynamic changes and allowing tighter control of pressure by showing the beat-to-beat response to intervention.
The T-line is an innovative continuous, noninvasive blood pressure monitor, which provides accuracy clinically equivalent to that of an invasive arterial cannula. It utilizes a mechanical bracelet for optimal positioning of the sensor above the radial artery.

Mindray received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Hypervisor VI, a central monitoring system.
The BC-3200 three-part differential hematology analyzer is the first automatic diagnostic laboratory instrument introduced by Mindray targeting the North American market.

A new neonatal-infant tracheostomy tube holder that features a friendly duck pattern, reportedly easy fastener tabs and a moisture repellent lining is being introduced by Dale Medical Products Inc.

Baxa Corp. recently announced the expansion of its Valimed System, which uses enhanced photoemission spectroscopy to quickly validate high-risk medication admixtures, as well as returned narcotics to provide an increased level of patient safety.
ValiMed compares a medication's spectroscopic signature to the Medication Signature Library and returns a "validated" or "not validated" result, reportedly requiring no user interpretation.

July 2007

Mediware Information Systems has introduced its new BloodSafe system, a 510(k)-cleared, bedside point-of-care, transfusion administration package designed to extend blood-safety controls outside the blood bank. It consists of remote release refrigerators that make units immediately and safely available throughout the hospital and powerful hand-held devices to verify blood units transfused in surgery or at the bedside. The BloodSafe system is available either as a stand-alone solution or as a fully integrated component of the transfusion-management system, HCLL.

Cook Medical announced today the availability of the Cook Turbo-Flo 8 French Double Lumen Central Venous Catheter, designed to produce increased flow rates.
This catheter employs Cook’s patented antibiotic impregnation process, infusing minocycline and rifampin on both the internal and external surfaces of the catheter to provide increased protection against catheter-related bloodstream infections.

The VitalCare 506NV3 series uses ComfortCuff measure-on-inflation that quickly deflates once the systolic pressure is reached.
This series is now available with TurboTemp fast predictive temperature and a choice of Nellcor’s Oximax or Criticare’s DOX pulse oximeters.
New features include bidirectional communication with central stations and hospital networks. Patient vital signs can be transmitted as spot-check or as continuous monitoring. Blood pressure measurements can be requested remotely from a central station.

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