Among ventilation advances demonstrated at this year's European Society of Intensive Care Medicine Congress, held in Barcelona, the combination of the SERVO-i ventilator with Neurally Adjusted Ventilatory Assist (NAVA) provoked considerable interest because the system allows ventilation to be controlled by the patient's own respiratory centre in the brain. During a discussion with Daniela…
Beckman Coulter developed a new integrated lab systems: The UniCel DxC880i prototype should deliver efficient disease management services.
The positive effects of proton rays have been known for years. However, Germany still lacks institutions that utilise those effects.
Innovative materials and technologies for medical devices are on show by GE Plastics.
The new Nextim system, eXimia NBS is a novel brain stimulation technology which provides individual measures of the health and functional capacity of the central nervous system, as well as of brain reactions to targeted magnetic pulses. Thanks to its advanced technology and proven clinical performance, the NBS system helps medical professionals to focus on the issues that matter the most - and to…
Berchtold camerea systems delivers shadow-free images in all lightning situations
Dräger Medical launched new space-saving OR light.
Cerament Spine Support, designed by the medical technology company BoneSupport to treat osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures, has achieved full patient enrolment in an open, multi-centre study which will investigate the product's efficacy, safety, and the beneficial quality of life outcome for the patients. The study, being carried out at six centres in Germany, involves 40 patients aged…
Unlike conventional radiation therapy, selective, internal radiotherapy (SIRT), uses tiny radio-active microspheres to attack malignant liver tumours.
It's a new colour — but not a quality change for new products BOWA-electronic GmbH reports.
Rescue workers are often confronted with chaotically situations which are hard to sum up and coordinate.
Evacuation chairs and systems: The revision of evacuation and first-aid procedures are among the many side effects in the aftermath of the 9/11 events in New York.
The DICOM Attribute Converter is a software module that solves even complex communication problems.
Having incorporated customer's feedback, the Sopro Insufflators product line has been enlarged.
Brandon Medical has launched a new range of video camera systems for the operating theatre using Sony Professional technology.
Sony holds an increasingly important position within healthcare.
How developments in audio-visual technology hold the key to excellence in the operating theatre.
To learn more about the presence of Philips in healthcare - and particularly cardiology - our Netherlands correspondent visited the company in Amsterdam.
Italy's smart, innovative design enjoys a worldwide reputation. This also applies to the country's healthcare products.
Smiths Medical launched a newly range of advanced embryo replacement catheters for in vitro fertilisation.
A Dutch company organises international postgraduate education programmes for cardiologists, run by the firm's Director, cardiologist Ton Hooghoudt MD PhD.
Positron emission tomography (PET) is a fancy tool for metabolic imaging. This week Tom Lewellen from the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle takes a detailed look on what is to expect of the recent developments in PET detector technology.
MORTIS is a new teleradiology system which utilises high-resolution laptops to receive images for diagnostic purposes.
Daniela Zimmermann reports on the 2nd Hospital Administrator Forum.
Dr Hanns-Joachim Weinmann, Diagnostics and Radiopharmaceuticals, Magnetic Resonance Imaging & X-Ray Research, Schering AG, examines what is feasible and what still lies only at a tantalising distance.