New Search

If you are not happy with the results below please do another search

986 search results for:

761

CardioConfirm: a Brand-New Connectivity Solution from Mortara Instrument

CardioConfirm is Mortara Instrument’s latest tool for connectivity and IT. CardioConfirm has been launched almost a decade after Mortara Instrument started a successful path leading to the adoption of the DICOM standard in all its ELITM series cardiographs, Stress Testing, Holter and Monitoring equipment. The DICOM standard allows users to seamlessly integrate reports from Mortara […]

763

Top 10 health technology hazards for 2017

The safe use of health technology-from basic infusion pumps to large, complex imaging systems-requires identifying possible sources of danger or difficulty with those technologies and taking steps to minimize the likelihood that adverse events will occur. This list will help healthcare facilities do that. Produced each year by ECRI Institute’s Health Devices Group, the Top […]

764

Best practices in resuscitation – interim updates for 5-Year ILCOR recommendations

Over the past decade, resuscitation has become one of the fastest growing areas in emergency medical care. The drivers for growth include portable, remote monitoring equipment as well as real time video-consultation. The focus of attention is on cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and emergency cardiovascular care (ECC), and includes all responses to sudden life-threatening events impacting […]

766

Should TAVI be extended to lower risk patients?

The relatively new procedure for aortic valve replacement, namely Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI), first performed in 2002, is considered to be an appropriate approach when conventional surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) for severe aortic stenosis is contraindicated because patients have left ventricular dysfunction or are very elderly with comorbidities. During the procedure a catheter […]

767

Mortara’s New Milwaukee Manufacturing Facility

Based in Milwaukee (Wisconsin, USA), Mortara Instrument, Inc. recently opened its new manufacturing and distribution facility. The 64,000-square-foot, air conditioned, high tech facility consolidate and expand Mortara’s manufacturing and distribution operations which were previously split between the company’s headquarters building and its warehousing operation on Sleske Drive in Milwaukee. ‘I am proud of our continued […]

769

Microbotics – miniature machines and molecular motors open new vistas for medicine

Microbotics (or micro-robotics) is a term that describes the emerging field of intelligent, miniaturized robotics. Biomedical microbotics offers a glimpse of a future where tiny, untethered devices (smaller than 1 mm in size) are inserted into patients via natural orifices or through extremely small incisions. Thereafter, they navigate autonomously through the bloodstream or inside fluids […]

770

Ten years on: the impact of human papilloma virus vaccine

Globally HPV is still the most frequent sexually transmitted virus. Certain genotypes cause virtually all cases of cervical cancer, a disease which kills over a quarter of a million women per annum, as well as causing morbidity and mortality from anogenital and oropharyngeal disease in both genders. However back in October 2005 it was reported […]