Cardiac Surgery
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Cardiac Surgery
REVA's Fantom Encore Thin Strut Bioresorbable Scaffold Unveiled
REVA Medical, out of San Diego, California, has released its Fantom Encore bioresorbable scaffold. The implant is made with the company's own Tyrocore polymer that is absorbed by the body over a period of time, eventually disappearing while...
Cardiac Surgery
Medtronic's Valiant Navion Thoracic Stent Graft Cleared in EU
Medtronic won European CE Mark approval to introduce its Valiant Navion thoracic stent graft for treating lesions within the descending thoracic aorta such as thoracic aortic aneurysms (TAA), blunt traumatic aortic injuries (BTAI), and...
Cardiac Surgery
PerQseal Absorbable, Sutureless Large-Bore Closure Device Coming to Europe
Vivasure Medical, a Galway, Ireland company, is launching in Europe its PerQseal closure device for use in large vessel femoral arteriotomies following large-bore transcatheter procedures, such as aortic valve replacements. Though minimally...
Cardiac Surgery
Tiny New Pacemaker Small Enough for Infants
Researchers at Children’s National Health System, working with engineers from Medtronic, have created a pacemaker appropriately tiny enough to implant into infants. Measuring only one cubic centimeter, about the size of a large pill, it...
Cardiac Surgery
3M's New Durapore Advanced Surgical Tape for Keeping Tubes in Place
3M is releasing a new surgical adhesive tape that was developed to address special needs for a variety of clinical applications. The 3M Durapore Advanced tape is particularly beneficial when securing critical tubes that have to stay in place...
Cardiac Surgery
Barco's New 27" 4K Surgical Monitor
Barco is releasing a new 4K surgical monitor that's designed to give clinicians a high fidelity live image during interventional procedures. The Barco MDSC-8427 has a 27” screen, providing a new, larger size over common 24" and 26"...
Cardiac Surgery
Masimo's High Accuracy RD SET Pulse Oximeters Cleared by FDA
Masimo won FDA clearance for its RD SET sensors that feature the company's "Measure-through Motion" and "Low Perfusion SET" pulse oximetry. The new disposable oximeters are supposedly twice as accurate than Masimo's previous offerings for...
Cardiac Surgery
HoloLens Used to Looks at Heart Scars in High Resolution
At the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, researchers have been investigating the use of the Microsoft HoloLens augmented reality headset for visualizing myocardial scars during surgical interventions. During ablations and other...
Cardiac Surgery
FDA Approves Valiant Navion Thoracic Stent Graft for Patients with Narrow Iliac Arteries
Medtronic received FDA approval for its Valiant Navion thoracic stent graft, a minimally invasive system for correction of lesions within the descending thoracic aorta, particularly in patients with narrow iliac arteries. The device is...
Cardiac Surgery
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