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Enrollment commences in NORDIC implantable cardioverter defibrillator clinical trial

BIOTRONIK SE & Co. KG announced today the start of the NORDIC ICD clinical trial. The first implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) patients were enrolled by its coordinating clinical investigator, Prof. Dr. Dietmar Bänsch at the University Hospital of Rostock and the investigator Dr. Stefan Kuster at the DRK Hospital of Mölln/Ratzeburg.

25 Feb 2011

Scottsdale Healthcare implants MRI-safe pacemaker

Scottsdale Healthcare Shea Medical Center is the first hospital in the southwestern United States to implant an MRI-safe pacemaker, a major technological breakthrough for patients who need MRI diagnostic scans, which can damage older style pacemakers or cause serious health complications.

18 Feb 2011

Spectranetics fourth quarter revenues decrease 1% to $29.3 million

Spectranetics Corporation today reported financial results for the quarter and full year ended December 31, 2010.

17 Feb 2011

Rapid approvals for medical devices by FDA leads to increased recalls: Study

According to a latest study many medical devices recalled in recent years by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) because they posed a high risk to patients were not rigorously studied before being approved for patient use. The study, appearing on the web site of The Archives of Internal Medicine, said that most medical devices that were the subject of high-risk recalls from 2005 to 2009 had been cleared through a regulatory pathway with little testing. This included external heart defibrillators, hospital infusion pumps and mechanical ventilators.

14 Feb 2011

Sorin's 2010 consolidated revenues increase 4.9% to € 745.8 million

The Board of Directors of Sorin S.p.A. meeting today under the chairmanship of Rosario Bifulco reviewed the fourth quarter 2010 and the preliminary 2010 consolidated results.

11 Feb 2011

Cardiac Science receives contract to deploy Powerheart AEDs at US Postal Inspection Service

Cardiac Science Corporation, a global leader in automated external defibrillator and diagnostic cardiac monitoring devices, has been awarded a contract to deploy Powerheart AEDs at U.S. Postal Inspection Service sites across the nation.

10 Feb 2011

FDA approves Medtronic's new Revo MRI pacemaker

Medtronic, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved its Revo MRI SureScan pacing system, the first and only pacemaker in the U.S. specifically designed for use in an Magnetic Resonance Imaging environment and approved as MR-Conditional. Shipments of Revo MRI will begin immediately.

8 Feb 2011

Chances of surviving cardiac arrests high in large public venues having AEDs

A study of more than 14,000 men and women whose hearts stopped suddenly suggests that the chances of survival are very high if such cardiac arrests are witnessed in large public venues, including airports, sports arenas or malls. The reasons, researchers say, are that almost four out of five such cases appear to be due to a survivable type of heart rhythm disruption and that big places with lots of people are more likely to have an automated external defibrillator, or AED device, handy, along with those who can apply it as well as CPR.

3 Feb 2011

Sprint Fidelis ICD leads fail more often in younger patients with hereditary heart disease

The recalled Sprint Fidelis implantable cardioverter-defibrillator leads failed more often in younger patients, women, and individuals with hereditary heart disease, according to a multicenter study published online Jan. 17 in Circulation. The researchers found that lead failure was not associated with death or serious injuries.

1 Feb 2011

NIH study helps explain survival rate discrepancy between cardiac arrest in public and home

Cardiac arrests that can be treated by electric stimulation, also known as shockable arrests, were found at a higher frequency in public settings than in the home, according to a National Institutes of Health-funded study appearing in the Jan. 27 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

27 Jan 2011

Cardiac Science receives U.S. Army's AWR certification for automated defibrillator

Cardiac Science Corporation, a global leader in automated external defibrillator and diagnostic cardiac monitoring devices, has been awarded Airworthiness Release from the U.S. Army's Research, Development, and Engineering Command for the Powerheart AED G3 Pro automated defibrillator.

25 Jan 2011

FDA approves Spectranetics PMA for manufacturing site change for CVX-300 laser system

Spectranetics Corporation today announced that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the Company's premarket approval application (PMA) supplement requesting a manufacturing site change for the CVX-300® laser system.

20 Jan 2011

Judge orders Guidant to pay $296 million fine for withholding information about faulty heart devices

This Boston Scientific Corp. subsidiary faces this fine as well as three years of probation as part of a case that began in 2005.

14 Jan 2011

22.5% implanted defibrillators are unnecessary: Study

According to a new study nearly 20% of American patients who receive an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) may not need it. These ICDs when unnecessary could put the patients at higher risk of death and serious complications than patients who meet the criteria for the life-saving device say authors of the study published in the Jan. 5 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

6 Jan 2011

Ontario hospital implants powerful new defibrillator

St. Michael's Hospital today became the first in Ontario to implant a small but powerful new defibrillator into a patient's chest.

22 Dec 2010

Nose job gone horribly wrong

A case presented to the Southwark Coroner’s Court heard that doctors continued operating on Kelly McLure, 31, after she suffered her cardiac arrest at the private Belvedere Hospital, in Kent. The paramedics were kept waiting for 45 minutes despite insisting on taking her straight to A&E. However her surgeons Dr Edward Latimer-Sayer and Dr Ahmed el Sayed Moustafa, the anaesthetist, continued with the routine nose and chin procedure after stabilizing her.

19 Dec 2010

Cardiac Science adds two ECGs to Burdick line

Cardiac Science Corporation, a global leader in automated external defibrillator (AED) and diagnostic cardiac monitoring devices, today adds two electrocardiographs (ECGs) under its Burdick brand, known for its accuracy, reliability, and ease of use. The ECGs, available only in the U.S., deliver built-in, bi-directional communication so customers can connect to leading EMRs.

9 Dec 2010

Broselow Pediatric Emergency Tape now in electronic format

A well-known paper-based medical chart used by pediatric emergency personnel across America is undergoing a 21st century boost in an collaborative effort between Virginia Tech's College of Engineering, Roanoke-based Carilion Clinic Children's Hospital, and the physician who created the original method some 25 years ago.

7 Dec 2010

Research team creates digital version of Broselow tape for children

7 Dec 2010

Budapest meeting to highlight discrepancies in using implantable devices among European countries

Even though the use of implantable devices for the treatment of heart failure and heart rhythm disturbances has increased enormously in Europe in recent years, there still remain large differences between countries. Indeed, a report last year in the European Journal of Heart Failure found that there is an underuse of devices in many of the European countries surveyed. This is especially so in the emerging economies of Eastern Europe.

23 Nov 2010

Defibrillator News and Research

Latest Defibrillator News and Research

Enrollment commences in NORDIC implantable cardioverter defibrillator clinical trial

Scottsdale Healthcare implants MRI-safe pacemaker

Spectranetics fourth quarter revenues decrease 1% to $29.3 million

Rapid approvals for medical devices by FDA leads to increased recalls: Study

Sorin's 2010 consolidated revenues increase 4.9% to € 745.8 million

Cardiac Science receives contract to deploy Powerheart AEDs at US Postal Inspection Service

FDA approves Medtronic's new Revo MRI pacemaker

Chances of surviving cardiac arrests high in large public venues having AEDs

Sprint Fidelis ICD leads fail more often in younger patients with hereditary heart disease

NIH study helps explain survival rate discrepancy between cardiac arrest in public and home

Cardiac Science receives U.S. Army's AWR certification for automated defibrillator

FDA approves Spectranetics PMA for manufacturing site change for CVX-300 laser system

Judge orders Guidant to pay $296 million fine for withholding information about faulty heart devices

22.5% implanted defibrillators are unnecessary: Study

Ontario hospital implants powerful new defibrillator

Nose job gone horribly wrong

Cardiac Science adds two ECGs to Burdick line

Broselow Pediatric Emergency Tape now in electronic format

Research team creates digital version of Broselow tape for children

Budapest meeting to highlight discrepancies in using implantable devices among European countries

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