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Hub & Spoke: Improving Cardiogenic Shock Outcomes at WellStar

Offered in cooperation with Abiomed

Proven protocols and practices, people and a push for earlier hemodynamic support are changing the face of cardiogenic shock survival. One leading health system has improved survival rates into the 70+ percent range. And their team believes other facilities should follow suit.

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Seeking Synergy: Bringing Cardiology into Your Enterprise Imaging Strategy

Sponsored by Sectra

There is new synergy afoot when it comes to enterprise imaging. Healthcare systems are increasingly choosing enterprise imaging systems to manage image viewing across the two most image-rich ‘ologies: radiology and cardiology.

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Outsourcing Is In: Developing & Integrating Cath Lab Best Practices & Standardization

Sponsored by Terumo

Sometimes a move in the right direction starts with a good hard look in the rearview mirror, then breaking it off to start anew with greater wisdom.

Medtronic HeartWare(TM) HVAD(TM) System Demonstrates Reduction in Total Strokes, Disabling Strokes and Stroke-Related Mortality with Blood Pressure Management

Sponsored by Medtronic

DUBLIN and ORLANDO, Fla. — April 5, 2019 — Medtronic plc (NYSE:MDT) today announced the results of an analysis on the impact of stroke severity in patients receiving its HeartWare(TM) HVAD(TM) System as destination therapy, showing that targeted blood pressure management helped reduce serious strokes.

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Q&A: Fujifilm’s Jim Kuhn on the company’s complete customer experience turnaround

Sponsored by FUJIFILM Healthcare Americas

In today’s era of value-based care, healthcare providers and vendors are more focused on customer service than ever before. FUJIFILM Medical Systems U.S.A., Inc. (Fujifilm), for instance, recently made significant strides with its own customer service, skyrocketing to the top of MD Buyline’s customer experience ratings for digital radiography (DR) portables, flat panel detectors and DR rooms (MD Buyline Q3 2018) which includes the highest rating in the portable category for Service Response Time and Service Repair Quality.

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Are You Investing in Cath Lab Worker Health?

Sponsored by ORSIF

For-profit and not-for-profit healthcare facilities may value the health of their cath lab employees differently. Without a clear indication of the bottom-line impact, some hospitals may be forgoing protective equipment and sacrificing the long-term health of their workers. Should the C-suite prioritize worker health when allocating investment dollars? 

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X-ray Vision—Building a Hybrid OR: The Plan, Team & Tactics to Do Imaging Right

Sponsored by Siemens Healthineers

When North Colorado Medical Center in Greeley set out to build a new hybrid OR equipped with robotic angiography, they had no idea the project would set a new bar for project planning and execution across the health system, bring “exponential improvements” in image quality and “exponential reductions” in radiation dose and contrast media, or that they’d finish the project almost a month early without a single change order and $600,000 under budget. Teamwork, meticulous planning and virtual reality-guidance played an essential role in refining and perfecting this image-guided surgery suite even before a pen was put to paper.

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Increasing survival rates for in-hospital cardiac arrest

ZOLL

Sometimes the planets align. This time, it’s to the advantage of patients at risk of in-hospital cardiac arrest. While a study recently confirmed cardiac arrest survival rates fall significantly on nights and weekends, another study shows that a wearable defibrillator can help patients 24/7.