The TRUMPF iLED has applications in the OR, ER and ICU. The iLED 5 surgical light uses 184 white and color LEDs to produce 160,000 Lux of low heat, virtually shadow-free illumination. Since each LED in the iLED has its own convergence lens, overlapping fields of light are produced which virtually eliminate shadows cast over the surgical site by equipment and the movement of the surgical team. In addition to shadows, heat is also noticeably absent when using the iLED.

The show floor at PACS 2007 staged the debut of Pacsgear's new MediaImport, a solution that enables access to non-DICOM sources such as documents and multimedia, as PACS evolves into a multimedia repository, managing JPEGs, AVIs and MPEGs, digital cameras, USB memory sticks or flash memory, in addition to DICOM.

The system imports external DICOM-compliant CDs/DVDs from a reportedly wide range of PACS vendors, supports DICOM modality worklists, allow editing patient demographics, changing fields such as Patient ID/MRN and accession number, prior to import.

March 22, 2007 – MAQUET Critical Care recently announced that they have received FDA clearance for an upgrade of its SERVO-i Ventilator System for conditional use in the magnetic resonance (MR) environment.

The SERVO-i ventilator is intended for treatment and monitoring of all patients who require mechanical ventilation. The new MR option is capable of providing critically ill patients with advanced ventilatory care using the same machine wherever they are in the hospital, the ICU, the MR examination room and during transport to and from the MR room.