Monitoring our own health
Health Manager, a new diagnostic system for personal health monitoring, will be launched by Biocomfort at Medica in November.
The dual-use stethoscope
Emergency care doctors can now use just one stethoscope to tend either paediatric or adult patients.
Synchronising drug and gene therapies
Cancer can be tackled with a combination of drug and genetic therapies, so that the effectiveness of individual treatments are enhanced.
The trauma surgeon is a decathlete
Fear for the quality of acute care for the injured and victims of accidents was expressed by Professor Vilmos Vécsei, traumatology and sports traumatology specialist and Head of the University Clinic for Trauma Surgery in Vienna (VV), as well as President and General Secretary of the European Trauma Society (ETS), and Professor Otmar Trentz, Director of the Trauma Surgery Clinic at University…
The Yale-method for hip replacements
About 1,600,000 artificial hips are implanted every year, in Germany alone.
Ophthalmology - Surgical simulators
Czech Republic - Two unique ophthalmic simulators are in use at the Motol Faculty Hospital, Prague.
The pulseless life
New pulsatile heart pumps (ventricular assist devices - VAD) can remain in the body as a permanent heart support.
Mobile positioning table supports patients up to 230kg
To meet US requirements, Provotec GmbH & Co KG, of Espelkamp - which is entering US and international markets with their Prognost XPE tables - has increased the patient load and will have UL and CCC approval.
Ci-Ca Therapy
Less bleeding complications due to safe citrate anticoagulation.
Continuous renal replacement therapy
The Prismaflex monitor, produced by Gambro Healthcare provides extra therapy options and features for continuous renal replacement therapy.
Tissue oxygenation
Continous, non-invasive tissue oxygenation and monitoring during resusciation.
Products span respiratory care
Respironics develops and manufactures innovative sleep and respiratory products and programmes, which it distributes internationally:
Portable multi-parameter monitors
Fukuda Denshi, manufacturer of advanced patient monitoring and user-configurable clinical information management systems, recently introduced its popular DS-7100 range of portable, multi-parameter monitors to the European market.
Fixed value PEEP valves and CPAP systems
Intersurgical expanded its range of respiratory products.
The 91220 mCare 300
Spacelabs Healthcare is a growing group of companies now operating under one new name. Earlier companies incorporated under this name include Spacelabs Medical, Del Mar Reynolds, Blease, Hertford Cardiology and Spacelabs Medical Data.
The Vela Diamond
Another introduction at the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine Congress, in Spain, was the Vela Diamond mechanical ventilator platform made by Viasys Healthcare.
The Raphael XTC
The Raphael XTC offers non-invasive positive pressure ventilation (NPPV), full-featured invasive ventilation and easy switching between those two ventilatory modes. Its Swiss manufacturer, Hamilton Medical AG, also points out that the system is fully adapted for use in sub-acute care units, long-term care centres, intensive care departments, recovery rooms and during patient transit.
A new family of ventilators by Dräger Medical
Two new ventilators - Carina and Carina home - were introduced at the 26th International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine in Brussels.
Only a fraction of mammography systems are digital
A report by Keith Halson, our correspondent in France.
Patient's brain controls mechanical ventilation
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…
GE launches a new monitoring technique
Working in tandem, two new technologies — SpiroDynamics and FRC INview — measure pressure and volume directly from a patient's lung.
Boosting hospital budgets
From 'pyjama' concept to full-dress teleradiology Ten years ago, Professor Maximilian Reiser, of Munich University Hospital, Germany, caused a stir when he presented his (then) futuristic concepts for teleradiology. Today, this valuable service is not only a reality, but also a fairly widespread practice. By providing external radiological support to other hospitals and private practices, Munich…
Verdict 'soon' in Libya
The five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor, accused of intentional mass HIV infection, face their final court sitting on 31 October. A verdict is expected soon afterwards.
World's first full-face transplant
The ethics committee of the UK' s National Health Service (NHS) has cleared the way for the world's first full face transplant.
Agfa HealthCare launches new digital mammography functionality within IMPAX™
At RSNA, Agfa HealthCare introduced a range of functional extensions for digital mammography reading and reporting applications on its industry leading IMPAX™ PACS platform. The company launched IMPAX 6.2 integrated with CAD and MRS® Reporting as well as showing a work-in-progress of a new software application that addresses the growing need for digital mammography screening.
