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In medicine, a catheter is a tube that can be inserted into a body cavity, duct, or vessel. Catheters . In most uses, a catheter is a thin, flexible tube ("soft" catheter), though in some uses, it is a larger, solid ("hard") catheter. A catheter left inside the body, either temporarily or permanently, may be referred to as an indwelling catheter. A permanently inserted catheter may be referred to as a permcath.

Abiomed presents PROTECT II study data in percutaneous coronary intervention at SCAI 2011

Abiomed, Inc., a leading provider of breakthrough heart support technologies, today announced results from further 90 day clinical and economic analyses, based on data from the PROTECT II study.

7 May 2011

FDA approves Abbott's RX ACCULINK Carotid Stent System

Abbott today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the RX ACCULINK Carotid Stent System for the treatment of patients with carotid artery disease who are at standard risk of adverse events from carotid endarterectomy.

7 May 2011

FDA approves Medtronic's two new dual-electrode leads for cardiac resynchronization therapy devices

Medtronic, Inc. today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval and launch of the Attain Ability Plus and the Attain Ability Straight left-heart leads for use with cardiac resynchronization therapy devices in treating heart failure patients.

From Medtronic 6 May 2011

Short courses of antibiotics safer for children with respiratory infections on ventilators

Short courses of antibiotics appear just as effective as longer ones - and a great deal safer - in treating respiratory infections that might cause pneumonia in children on temporary breathing devices, according to a Johns Hopkins Children's Center study published online May 3 in Clinical Infectious Diseases.

6 May 2011

Short antibiotic courses effective, safer for children with breathing-tube infections

Short courses of antibiotics appear just as effective as longer ones — and a great deal safer — in treating respiratory infections that might cause pneumonia in children on temporary breathing devices, according to a Johns Hopkins Children’s Center study published online May 3 in Clinical Infectious Diseases.

5 May 2011

Biosense Webster enters new agreement with Stereotaxis to deploy Odyssey products

Stereotaxis, Inc. announced today that it has entered into a new strategic collaboration with Biosense Webster, Inc. related to Stereotaxis' rapidly growing Odyssey Solutions.

5 May 2011

Nation's emergency physicians warn about dangers linked with deep vein thrombosis

As temperatures warm and travel picks up around the country, the nation's emergency physicians issue a warning about the serious dangers associated with deep vein thrombosis.

5 May 2011

Coronary artery bypass graft surgeries have declined by 30% between 2001 and 2008

Between 2001 and 2008, the annual rate of coronary artery bypass graft surgeries performed in the United States decreased by more than 30 percent, but rates of percutaneous coronary interventions did not change significantly, according to a study in the May 4 issue of JAMA.

4 May 2011

Boston Scientific reports first use in Europe of Blazer Open-Irrigated Catheter

Boston Scientific Corporation today announced CE Mark approval and first use in Europe of its Blazer™ Open-Irrigated Catheter, the Company's latest radiofrequency ablation (RFA) catheter designed to treat a variety of arrhythmias such as atrial fibrillation, atrial flutter, ventricular tachycardia and other supraventricular tachycardias. The product is being launched this quarter in select CE Mark countries.

4 May 2011

Peripheral venous catheters cause over 10% of catheter-related bloodstream infections

A new study from Rhode Island Hospital has found that more than one in 10 catheter-related bloodstream infections due to Staph aureus in hospitalized adults are caused by infected peripheral venous catheters (PVC). The study points out the substantial medical burden that arises from complications from these infections due to the large number of such catheters used in hospitalized patients.

4 May 2011

Heart bypass surgery rates fall by 38% between 2001 and 2008: Study

According to latest the U.S. research, the number of heart patients getting bypass surgery fell by 38 percent between 2001 and 2008. This fall reflects several factors, including a decline in smoking rates, which has led to less coronary artery disease, said senior study author Dr. Peter Groeneveld, an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

4 May 2011

Doctors should consider catheterization for diagnosing children with heart defects: AHA

Doctors should consider using catheterization as a treatment tool in addition to its established role in diagnosing children with heart defects, according to a new American Heart Association scientific statement.

3 May 2011

First cryoablation procedure using new mapping catheter performed at Baylor Heart and Vascular Hospital

Baylor Jack and Jane Hamilton Heart and Vascular Hospital today announced the first patient procedure in the U.S. using the Achieve Mapping Catheter, an intra-cardiac electrophysiology diagnostic catheter that can be used to assess pulmonary vein isolation when treating paroxysmal atrial fibrillation.

3 May 2011

FDA approves Achieve Mapping Catheter for use in first patient procedure

Medtronic, Inc. today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval for use, and the first patient procedure using the Achieve™ Mapping Catheter, an intra-cardiac electrophysiology diagnostic catheter that can be used to assess pulmonary vein isolation when treating paroxysmal atrial fibrillation.

3 May 2011

Hartford credits NICHE with hospital's success in improving older patients' care

"On the Front Line of Change" was the theme of the 14th annual conference of NICHE, held last month in Las Vegas, Nevada. The conference brought together hundreds of nurses, nursing administrators, educators and other healthcare professionals from across the US and Canada, whose shared passion and purpose is to improve the quality of care for hospitalized older adults.

2 May 2011

ETP makes investment to support development of ICVrx's targeted epilepsy drug technology

Epilepsy Therapy Project, a non-profit organization whose mission is to accelerate new therapies for people living with epilepsy and seizures, and ICVrx, LLC, a pharmacy product research and development company focused on novel therapies for central nervous system disorders, announced today that ETP has made an investment in ICVrx to support the development of ICVrx's targeted epilepsy drug technology for patients whose seizures are not controlled by current therapies.

30 Apr 2011

BIOTRONIK launches Selectra left ventricular lead delivery system in the U.S.

BIOTRONIK, a leading manufacturer of implantable cardiac devices and pioneer of wireless remote monitoring technologies, today announced the US market release of the Selectra left ventricular lead delivery system.

28 Apr 2011

Stereotaxis launches Stereotaxis Epoch solution for electrophysiology lab

Stereotaxis, Inc. today announces the introduction of its new Stereotaxis Epoch platform, a comprehensive solution for any electrophysiology lab which combines the recognized benefits of remote magnetic catheter control, the efficiency of remote robotic device manipulation, and the power of the Odyssey platform, enabling highly sophisticated procedural data integration and transmission.

27 Apr 2011

Interventionalist-transfer strategy can improve heart attack patients' outcomes

In a large, traffic-congested city in China, severe heart attack patients received treatment faster and had better long-term results when interventional physicians were taken to them, according to a study in the American Heart Association journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes.

27 Apr 2011

Teleflex first quarter net revenue increases 6% to $388.7 million

Teleflex Incorporated, a leading, global provider of medical technology products, today reported financial results for the three months ended March 27, 2011.

26 Apr 2011

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Abiomed presents PROTECT II study data in percutaneous coronary intervention at SCAI 2011

FDA approves Abbott's RX ACCULINK Carotid Stent System

FDA approves Medtronic's two new dual-electrode leads for cardiac resynchronization therapy devices

Short courses of antibiotics safer for children with respiratory infections on ventilators

Short antibiotic courses effective, safer for children with breathing-tube infections

Biosense Webster enters new agreement with Stereotaxis to deploy Odyssey products

Nation's emergency physicians warn about dangers linked with deep vein thrombosis

Coronary artery bypass graft surgeries have declined by 30% between 2001 and 2008

Boston Scientific reports first use in Europe of Blazer Open-Irrigated Catheter

Peripheral venous catheters cause over 10% of catheter-related bloodstream infections

Heart bypass surgery rates fall by 38% between 2001 and 2008: Study

Doctors should consider catheterization for diagnosing children with heart defects: AHA

First cryoablation procedure using new mapping catheter performed at Baylor Heart and Vascular Hospital

FDA approves Achieve Mapping Catheter for use in first patient procedure

Hartford credits NICHE with hospital's success in improving older patients' care

ETP makes investment to support development of ICVrx's targeted epilepsy drug technology

BIOTRONIK launches Selectra left ventricular lead delivery system in the U.S.

Stereotaxis launches Stereotaxis Epoch solution for electrophysiology lab

Interventionalist-transfer strategy can improve heart attack patients' outcomes

Teleflex first quarter net revenue increases 6% to $388.7 million

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