Millions of people experience heart rhythm disturbances in their lifetime. This has propelled cardiac electrophysiology to become one of the most innovative fields in medicine today. BIOTRONIK, a privately owned, global company with headquarters in Germany, is one of the leaders in the cardiac rhythm management space. Aside from its European r (Read more...)
Tag: Cardiology
Cordis Unveil New Interventional Cardiology Products
Cordis, the interventional vascular arm of Cardinal Health, has announced three new additions to its cardiology portfolio for use in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The new products were on show at EUROPCR 2017 in Paris this week and include the RAILWAY Sheathless Access System and two new percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (P (Read more...)
BrainCool’s IQool Patient Cooling System Cleared in U.S.
BrainCool, a company based in Lund, Sweden, landed FDA clearance to introduce its IQool patient cooling system. Pads filled with BrainCool’s “BCCOOL” non-toxic liquid are placed around the patient’s head and neck, thighs, and the torso, and a programmable chiller cools and moves the liquid through the pads. The pads don&rsqu (Read more...)
Shockwave’s Lithoplasty System Now Cleared in EU for Coronary Artery Disease Treatment
Shockwave Medical out of Fremont, California won the European CE Mark to introduce its Coronary Lithoplasty System for helping to place stents into coronary arteries in patients that have substantial calcified plaque. Lithoplasty is Shockwave’s name for its technology (aka lithotripsy) that delivers sonic waves via a specialty catheter direct (Read more...)
EverSleep, a Sleep Tracker with Oxygenation Monitoring Looking for Funding on Indiegogo
SomnoHealth, a young company out of Golden, Colorado, is looking to introduce its EverSleep sleep tracker via an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign. The device is worn around the wrist and has a pulse oximeter built-in that provides blood oxygen saturation monitoring, in addition to an accelerometer for noticing motion, and a sound monitor for detecti (Read more...)
ResMed’s New Comfort Oriented AirTouch F20 CPAP Mask
ResMed, a maker of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) devices, is releasing what it says is its softest mask yet. The AirTouch F20 features a memory foam material that conforms to the patient’s face while minimizing the force it applies to the skin. The material is actually porous, allowing air and sweat to slowly seep […]
BIOTRONIK’s MultiPole Pacing for CRT Defibrillators Now Approved in U.S.
BIOTRONIK won FDA approval for its MultiPole Pacing (MPP) technology to be introduced in the U.S. on its CRT defibrillators (CRT-Ds). It’s designed to address the fact that the hearts of many patients on cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) fail to respond properly, and allowing cardiologists more pacing options can help overcome (Read more...)
Boston Sci’s Long Lasting Resonate ICDs and CRT-Ds Get FDA Approval
Boston Scientific won FDA approval to introduce its Resonate line of implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD) and cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillators (CRT-D). The same products were approved in Europe via a CE Mark earlier this year. Some of the notable features of the Resonate devices include multi-electrode pacing and integ (Read more...)
Abiomed Unveils 3rd Generation Impella CP Heart Pump for PCI and Cardiogenic Shock
Abiomed, the maker of implantable cardiac assistive devices, has just announced its new 3rd generation Impella CP heart pump. The device is designed to assist the native heart during percutaneous coronary interventional (PCI) procedures that can be difficult to tolerate for fragile patients, as well as to stabilize those post cardiac infarct t (Read more...)
Abbott Releases First Insertable Cardiac Monitor That Works with Your Smartphone
Abbott received the European CE Mark and is introducing its Confirm Rx Insertable Cardiac Monitor (ICM). Still sporting St. Jude Medical’s logo, now part of Abbott, the Confirm Rx features wireless Bluetooth connectivity to a paired app on the patient’s smartphone. This allows for transmission of cardiac event data to the patient&r (Read more...)
Resolute Onyx Drug Eluting Coronary Stent from Medtronic Approved by FDA
Medtronic won FDA regulatory approval and is releasing in the U.S. its Resolute Onyx drug-eluting (zotarolimus) stent. The device is based on the company’s Resolute Integrity device and is available in 4.5 mm and 5.0 mm diameters for patients with larger coronary arteries. It is designed for transradial delivery via a 5 French catheter. The [ (Read more...)
Edwards HemoSphere Hemodynamic Monitoring System Cleared by FDA
Edwards Lifesciences won FDA clearance for its HemoSphere hemodynamics monitoring system. It works with the Swan-Ganz pulmonary artery catheters that can provide flow, pressure and global indicator of oxygen saturation (CCO, RVEF, RVEDV, SVO2), and the Edwards oximetry central venous catheter that in addition to those can continuously monitor& (Read more...)
CARDEA SOLO Wearable ECG Monitor for Detecting Difficult to Diagnose Arrhythmias
Cardiac Insight, a company out of Kirkland, Washington, has been cleared by the FDA to introduce its CARDEA SOLO wearable electrocardiography (ECG) sensing device. The electronic component is inside an electrode patch that is stuck to the skin. The patient is outfitted with the device at the doctor’s office and sent home to live a […]
ResMed Unveils World’s Smallest CPAP Designed for Travel
ResMed, one of the bigger names in CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure) therapy, is unveiling today the world’s smallest CPAP device. The ResMed AirMini weighs less than 11 ounces (300 grams) and is only 5.4 inches (14 cm) on its longest side. Being so light and small can help patients take it along when traveling, […]
HAART 300 Aortic Annuloplasty Device Cleared by FDA to Repair Aortic Valves
BioStable Science & Engineering, a company based in Austin, Texas, won FDA clearance for its HAART 300 Aortic Annuloplasty Device. Having received the CE Mark clearance last year, the company has already begun distributing the device in a few specialty European centers. According to the firm, this is the first annuloplasty device for repai (Read more...)
Heart Sleeve Helps Heart Pump Blood: Interview with Harvard’s Ellen Roche
Heart failure is a very common clinical condition, afflicting millions of patients worldwide, and its prevalence is expected to further increase in the near future. Unfortunately, there are limited treatment options for advanced heart failure and the overall prognosis remains poor. Heart transplantation is considered to be the only definitive cure, (Read more...)
BIOTRONIK Releases New Line of MR-Conditional Pacemakers, CRT-Ps
BIOTRONIK is releasing a new line of MR-conditional pacemakers, the smallest the company has produced, and new quadripolar cardiac resynchronization therapy pacemakers (CRT-P). The Edora devices allow patients to receive MRI exams, as long as certain precautions are taken, and feature MRI AutoDetect feature that automatically puts an impl (Read more...)
Optical Coherence Tomographic Angiography Helps Track Diabetic Retinopathy
Vessel density as measured by optical coherence tomographic angiography (OCTA) correlates with the severity of diabetic retinopathy (DR) and may yield insight beyond that provided by fundus photography, according to Portuguese and U.S. researchers. R…
Medtronic’s New CoreValve Evolut Pro Transcatheter Aortic Valve Approved in U.S.
Medtronic received FDA approval for its CoreValve Evolut Pro transcatheter valve for implantation into symptomatic patients with severe aortic stenosis who are too fragile for open heart surgery. The self-expanding valve is based on the CoreValve Evolut R, and has a porcine pericardial tissue wrap that makes contact with the native valve and p (Read more...)
ARTIS pheno, Siemens’ New Flagship Angiography C-arm Cleared by FDA
Siemens won FDA clearance for its new ARTIS pheno robotic angiography C-arm. The system is essentially an upgraded version of the company’s Artis zeego (even the capitalization of the name has changed), sporting a zen40HDR flat panel detector and GIGALIX X-ray tube. The system features automatic dose selection to minimize radia (Read more...)