Archive for the ‘Cardiology’ Category

Draeger Patient Monitors First to Offer Continuous Noninvasive Arterial Pressure (CNAP) technology in the United States October 31, 2011 Telford, PA - Draeger announces that it has embedded continuous noninvasive blood pressure measurement technology into its patient monitoring systems. This technology from CNSystems, which has successfully supported patients in Europe for more than four years, is now available in the United States. ... Full story

Using a nanosensor "tattoo" and a modified iPhone, cyclists could closely monitor sodium levels to prevent dehydration, and anemic patients could track their blood oxygen levels. Heather Clark, a professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Northeastern University, is leading a team ... Full story

Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital have developed a new method of performing optical coherence tomography (OCT) of coronary vasculature that provides a ten fold increase in spatial resolution.  Called microOCT, the method will soon provide physicians with the ability to look with micrometer resolution at individual cells that play roles in coronary diseases. ... Full story

GE Healthcare yesterday announced that NASA has selected the company’s Vivid q cardiovascular ultrasound system for use by its human research program aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The laptop-sized device will be used to study the effects of long term space flight on astronauts’ bodies. GE also announced that ... Full story

Blood Pressure Monitoring Watch Singapore, June 2011 -- Link mobile health monitoring devices with cloud computing in the right way and you can change how we practice medicine. That's the vision behind HP's Mobile Health (mHealth) Monitoring Solution, a new, always-on, cloud-based healthcare offering that builds on research conducted at HP's Data Center Design for Cloud Computing Lab in Singapore. In a joint ... Full story

ADDING MULTIMEDIA BIOTRONIK Launches Lumax 540 VR-T DX, The World’s Only Single-Chamber ICD With Complete Atrial Diagnostics A novel solution for optimizing sensor-based diagnostics for patients with cardiac disease BERLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BIOTRONIK SE & Co. KG, a worldwide leader in manufacturing cardiac medical devices, announced today that the innovative ... Full story