Cardiology
Cardiology
Cardiology
Shift Labs Announces Partnership with Option Care Enterprises for National Use of DripAssist
DripAssist by Shift Labs is an infusion rate monitor that offers a significant improvement in portability, efficiency, durability and ease of use over traditional infusion monitors. The last time Medgadget reported on Shift Labs, the company had...
Cardiology
First Patient Receives Medtronic's Extravascular Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator
A pilot study is getting underway to evaluate a new Medtronic implantable cardioverter defibrillator that doesn't require leads to be placed inside the heart or veins. The Extravascular Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (EV ICD) system can...
Cardiology
Caretaker Beat-by-Beat Continuous Blood Pressure and Vital Signs Monitor Cleared in EU
Caretaker Medical, a firm based in Charlottesville, Virginia, won approval to introduce its Caretaker 4 wireless continuous non-invasive blood pressure (CNIBP) and vital signs monitoring system in the European Union. The product, already...
Cardiology
Flow Diverter with Hemodynamic Sensor to Monitor Aneurysm Treatment
Flow diverters are implants that are commonly used to prevent blood from flowing into aneurysms. They look very similar to stents, and are often combined into one device, but instead of providing structural strength, they provide a way for blood...
Cardiology
Clot Busting Nanogel: A Faster, Safer Therapy for Heart Attacks
Scientists at North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have developed a new way of delivering a clot buster and a mitigating drug to limit damage due to reperfusion. Currently, serious blockages...
Cardiology
Implantable System for Remodulin FDA Approved to Treat Pulmonary Hypertension
Medtronic won FDA approval for its Implantable System for Remodulin (ISR) as a new treatment option for people with pulmonary arterial hypertension. It consists of Medtronic's Synchromed II drug delivery system, an intravascular catheter, and...
Cardiology
"Ticker" by Mimi Swartz: A Medgadget Book Review and Interview with the Author
Of all the organs in the human body, the heart is arguably the most important, well-known, and worried about. Not only is the heart the vital electro-mechanical pump that moves about 2,000 gallons of our blood every day, but for centuries it's been...
Cardiology
Wearables + Telephone Coaching Didn't Improve Peripheral Arterial Disease Symptoms
Wearables have the potential to improve our health. They can be reminders that we're not moving enough throughout the day, and they can be useful tools for doctors to monitor the fitness progress of their patients. However, in the Journal of the...
Cardiology
Artificial Model of Heart Ventricle for Studying Cardiac Diseases, Drugs, Therapies
Custom-built artificial hearts are still something from science fiction, but the engineering knowledge to get there is already being assembled in labs around the world. One important piece of the puzzle has just been reported on by researchers...
Cardiology
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