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Pyng Medical out of Richmond, British Columbia has received US regulatory approval to market the FASTx Sternal Intraosseous Device that provides quick vascular access via bone marrow.
Features of the device from the product page:
Vascular access within 10 seconds; fluids and medications to the ...
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Posted: August 30th, 2010, 8:17pm CEST
Welch Allyn, in an attempt to improve patient monitoring and record keeping, has unveiled the Connex Electronic Vitals Documentation System. The system revolves around the Connex Vital Signs Monitor 6000 designed in collaboration with frog design, a San Francisco-based product development firm. The Connex system ...
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Posted: August 30th, 2010, 10:49am CEST
Robotic surgery is nothing new, but after the surgeon has been pushed away from the OR table, you are still left with the gasman. In one of the first efforts to make teleanesthesia a reality (apart from several telemonitoring efforts), researchers from the University of ...
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Posted: August 27th, 2010, 8:54pm CEST
Analog Devices, Inc., a developer and manufacturer of MEMS and digital signal processing technologies from Norwood, Mass, has just announced that its high performance iMEMS accelerometer enables Zoll Medical's new palm-sized CPR device to measure the rate and depth of chest compressions administered by rescuers. If you've ...
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Found on Medgadget.
Posted: August 25th, 2010, 7:20pm CEST
Philips Respironics is releasing a new portable ventilator for adult and pediatric patients above five kilos. The Trilogy200 provides up to six hours of life support on one set of batteries which can be hot swapped for indefinite use.
From a press release obtained by ...
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Posted: August 25th, 2010, 6:15pm CEST
Echo Therapeutics out of Franklin, Mass has completed a clinical trial of its Prelude SkinPrep System and is planning to ask for approval from the FDA, according to the statement released by the company. The device is meant to permeate the skin in preparation for transdermal protein ...
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Droperidol is a highly potent butyrophenone used for the therapy of postoperative nausea and vomiting. Its cardiac safety in cardiovascular-healthy patients and those with long QT (LQT) syndrome is a matter of debate. In this study, we investigated whether droperidol has subtype-specific effects in cellular and computational models of ...
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Anterior retraction of the tongue is used to enhance upper airway patency during pediatric fiberoptic intubation. This can be achieved by the use of Magill forceps as a tongue retractor, but lingual grip can become unsteady and traumatic. Our objective was to modify this instrument using computer-aided engineering for ...
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Patient monitoring displays are designed to improve patient safety, and yet little is known about how anesthesiologists interact with these displays. Previous studies of clinician behavior used an observer in the operating room, which may have altered behavior. We describe a covert observation technique to determine how often and ...
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The common practice of maintaining central venous pressure (CVP) below 5 mm Hg to reduce blood loss during hepatic resection increases the risk of venous air embolism (VAE). We initiated this study after observing that the anteroposterior (AP) diameter of the liver can be much larger than 7 cm, ...
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Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic autoimmune connective tissue disorder, with a heterogeneous presentation. Disease severity is wide ranging, with most suffering milder forms; however, it is potentially fatal depending on organ involvement. The disorder was recognized as early as the Middle Ages, with the 12th-century physician Rogerius being ...
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We sought to determine the impact of a rapid response system on cardiac arrest rates and mortality in a United States veteran population.
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We describe a prospective analysis of cardiac arrests in 9 months before and 27 months after institution of a rapid response system, and retrospective analysis ...
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Chest radiography has been reported to have low diagnostic accuracy in critically ill intensive care unit (ICU) patients, and chest computed tomography (CT) scans require patients to be transported out of the ICU, putting them at risk of adverse events. In this study we assessed the efficacy of routine ...
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The recent H1N1 epidemic has resulted in a large number of deaths, primarily from acute hypoxemic respiratory failure. We reviewed the current strategies to rescue patients with severe hypoxemia. Included in these strategies are high-frequency oscillatory ventilation, airway pressure release ventilation, inhaled vasodilators, and the use of extracorporeal life support. ...
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Supraglottic jet ventilation (JVS) with injectors above airway stenoses may result in inadvertent high lung pressures. We designed this study to investigate intrinsic positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEPi) during jet ventilation via a distant injector in a model of dynamic upper airway obstruction.
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Respiratory pressure-time curves were recorded during ...
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Loss of skeletal muscle mass is a poorly understood complication of end-stage liver disease (ESLD). Based on recent stem cell literature, we hypothesized that the potent negative regulator of muscle mass, myostatin, could play a role in the muscle loss associated with ESLD. In this preliminary investigation, we measured myostatin ...
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We investigated whether preoperative positional arterial blood pressure change predicted hypotension and ephedrine requirement during spinal anesthesia for cesarean delivery.
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Arterial blood pressure was measured in 66 women undergoing cesarean delivery in the supine and the right lateral positions. Positional blood pressure change was defined as the difference ...
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Several studies suggest that many parents and research participants have poor understanding of the elements of consent, particularly the risks and benefits. However, some data suggest that the format and framing of research risks and benefits may be an important determinant of subject understanding. We examined the effect of ...
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Percutaneous cannulation of the femoral vein, in the pediatric age group, can be technically challenging, especially when performed by residents in training. We examined whether the use of real-time ultrasound guidance is superior to a landmark technique for femoral vein catheterization in children undergoing heart surgery.
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Patients were ...
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The occurrence of perioperative seizures in patients with a preexisting seizure disorder is unclear. There are several factors unique to the perioperative period that may increase a patient's risk of perioperative seizures, including medications administered, timing of medication administration, missed doses of antiepileptic medications, and sleep deprivation. We designed ...
Anesthesiology