Newly FDA-cleared methods in ventilation monitoring further expand the performance of the Engstrom Carestation ventilator by GE Healthcare.
With SpiroDynamics, tracheal pressure can be monitored regardless of the ventilator setting. The method facilitates compliance measurement at the beginning, middle and end of a breath for better assessment of overdistention, providing a dynostatic curve that better estimates alveolar pressure. This further enhances detection of Intrinsic PEEP and inflection points.

Helping hospitals bridge the communications gap with deaf individuals, DT Interpreting, a service of Deaf Talk LLC, and Sony Electronics are providing access to on-demand American Sign Language (ASL) video interpreting services.
The collaboration involves the use of Sony’s IPELA PSC-TL30 all-in-one video conferencing system, a network ready video communication system that allows instant communication over IP networks.
For ease of use, the system is designed with single-layer GUI, translucent cascading menus and simple mouse operation.

Edwards Lifesciences’ PreSep Oligon Oximetry Catheter is an antimicrobial catheter with the added capability for monitoring central venous oxygen saturation (ScvO2). It identifies occult tissue hypoxia with continuous ScvO2 and provides lasting broad-spectrum antimicrobial protection with Oligon technology, revealing occult tissue hypoxia that traditional vital signs can miss. ScvO2 is a sensitive and specific method for detecting blood loss. Oligon antimicrobial material releases silver ions (Ag ) from

The Glucommander Plus, by GlucoTec Inc., provides patient management and system-wide quality improvement services for healthcare providers concerned with patient glycemic control.
The device (tablet or hand-held versions available) enables licensed healthcare professionals to titrate dosing of insulin, glucose, saline and other medications for patients on intravenous and subcutaneous therapy and as a result, to reach target blood glucose levels more quickly and with fewer complications than other treatment methods.

The EndoTool Glucose Management System by MD Scientific is an intravenous insulin dose calculator designed for critical care applications for tight blood glucose control. The software is HIPPA compliant, provides printed and digital records, is user friendly, reduces physician work load, requires no calculations by nurses, allows for local control of many parameters, can provide medical director directed transition to subcutaneous insulin orders and is associated with an incidence of hypoglycemia below all published reports of tight glycemic control protocols.

Two universal thermal pads that enable rapid application of temperature management and greater flexibility in pad placement on patients are available with the Kimberly-Clark Patient Warming System.
The small or large-sized rectangle pads are designed to be placed anywhere on the body where there is intact, well-perfused skin. The warming system provides a noninvasive method of temperature control, requiring minimal body coverage for maximum access to surgical sites, and is ideal for complex surgeries involving access to large surface areas or open cavities.

The University of Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center (UWCCC) is the first facility to install Siemens’ Inveon preclinical imaging system.
This dockable multimodality system was developed to offer maximum imaging versatility and performance. It allows facilities of perform PET, SPECT or CT individually or in combination, and provides a multimodality upgrade path and comprehensive suite of preclinical analysis applications. The system was demonstrated last week at the Fifth Annual Society of Molecular Imaging (SMI) show in Waikloa, HI.

Cancer patients in India can now receive IGRT treatments with the arrival of Varian’s Clinac iX linear accelerator equipped with an On-Board Imager device for imaging and tumor tracking at the newly opened radiation oncology center at Apollo Hospital in Ahmendabad.

A recent report published by Duke University Medical Center demonstrated how functional MRI (fMRI) could enhance safety in brain tumor surgery, by highlighting motor and language areas of the brain and lessen the possibility of damaging healthy tissue.

The PET imaging market is experiencing double-digit growth, according to a report by IMV Medical Information Division. The study, which surveyed 1,725 hospitals and other sites with PET/CT and PET scanners as well as nuclear medicine cameras with coincidence detection, found that PET studies increased by 60 percent in 2003 to reach a 26.5 percent annual growth rate between 2003-2005.

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