Cardiac Imaging

While cardiac ultrasound is the widely used imaging modality for heart assessments, computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and nuclear imaging are also used and are often complimentary, each offering specific details about the heart other modalities cannot. For this reason the clinical question being asked often determines the imaging test that will be used.

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Shockwave Medical’s lithoplasty system achieves primary endpoint in single-arm study

A single-arm study found that all of the patients with moderate or severely calcified peripheral lesions who received the lithoplasty system achieved the primary efficacy endpoint of procedural success.

Abiomed Impella 2.5™and Impella 5.0™ Heart Pumps Receive Regulatory Approval From Japan Ministry of Health, Labor & Welfare

DANVERS, Mass., Sept. 27, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Abiomed, Inc. (NASDAQ:ABMD), a leading provider of breakthrough heart support technologies, announced today that the Impella 2.5 and Impella 5.0 heart pumps received Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency (PMDA) approval from the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor & Welfare (MHLW) for the treatment of drug-resistant acute heart failure.

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Data-based Evidence Drives Efficient Cath Lab Inventory Management

Cardinal Health

A team looking to increase efficiency in inventory management among VA medical centers has advice for healthcare facilities.

CardioFocus Begins U.S. Commercialization of HeartLight® System for Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation with First Procedure at Mount Sinai

MARLBOROUGH, Mass., September 27, 2016 – CardioFocus, Inc. today announced the first commercial U.S. procedure using its HeartLight® Endoscopic Ablation System for the treatment of patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (AF) at The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. The HeartLight® System received premarket approval (PMA) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in April 2016. This procedure marks the initiation of the company’s commercialization of the system in the large and growing U.S. AF market.

Dialysis organizations team up with CDC to protect patients

CDC is teaming up with a broad coalition of kidney and dialysis organizations to reduce the number of bloodstream infections in dialysis patients. Each year, about 37,000 people get potentially deadly bloodstream infections related to their dialysis treatment.

Abiomed Impella 2.5(TM)and Impella 5.0(TM) Heart Pumps Receive Regulatory Approval From Japan Ministry of Health, Labor & Welfare

DANVERS, Mass., Sept. 27, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Abiomed, Inc. (NASDAQ:ABMD), a leading provider of breakthrough heart support technologies, announced today that the Impella 2.5 and Impella 5.0 heart pumps received Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency (PMDA) approval from the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor & Welfare (MHLW) for the treatment of drug-resistant acute heart failure.

Automated dispenser simplifies managing multiple medications

Livi is a new medication dispenser that has big hopes of simplifying managing multiple drugs and complicated drugs regimens, especially for older adults.

SpringBoard Healthcare Launches Cath Lab, EP and IR Wage Survey

September 21, 2016 – SpringBoard Healthcare is now taking responses for its nationwide wage survey of nurses, technicians and specialists working in cardiac catheterization, electrophysiology and interventional radiology labs. Considered the gold standard of wage surveys for the industry, it is designed to gather comprehensive insight into the salaries and wages of employees in that sector. The results, based on data from thousands of participants, highlight salary and wage differences by job type, experience, facility type, credentials and state and region.

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