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Medical Device Technology
NanoPass Technologies secures a strategic investment from Elcam Medical
Needles : 15 September, 2010
NanoPass Technologies, a privately held company that develops novel microneedle solutions for painless delivery of drugs and vaccines, secures a strategic investment and manufacturing agreement with medical device manufacturer, Elcam Medical.
 
Medtronic extends remote implantable cardiac device monitoring system
Cardiac devices and equipment : 14 September, 2010
Medtronic introduces the CareLink Network for Heart Failure, an extension of the world’s largest remote implantable cardiac device monitoring system, that will be available this autumn for heart failure clinicians.
 
Hospira collaborates with Smiths Medical to offer infusion pump systems
Pumps and dispensers : 13 September, 2010
Hospira is entering into a commercial collaboration and co-development agreement with Smiths Medical focused on infusion pump systems.
 
Percutaneous catheter-based axial flow pump solution supports first patient
Pumps and dispensers : 13 September, 2010
Abiomed reports that the first patient was successfully supported for six days by the Impella Right Peripheral (RP) at the Providence Heart + Lung Institute at St Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver, British Columbia.
 
Reports show benefits of Niobe Magnetic Navigation System for VT ablation
Cardiac devices and equipment : 10 September, 2010
Stereotaxis is highlighting new additions to the body of evidence demonstrating clinical outcomes achieved with its Niobe Magnetic Navigation System in ventricular tachycardia (VT) ablation.
 
St Jude Medical agrees to invest in CardioMEMS to develop wireless monitors
Cardiac devices and equipment : 09 September, 2010
St Jude Medical and privately-held CardioMEMS have reached an agreement under which St Jude Medical will make a $60 million equity investment in CardioMEMS, a medical device company that has developed a wireless sensing and communication technology to assess cardiac performance.
 
Nuvoton releases lowest-cost voice-playback device for medical applications
Electronic components : 09 September, 2010
Nuvoton Technology introduces the ChipCorder ISD15D00, the industry’s lowest-cost voice-playback device for industrial, medical and automotive applications.
 
Gresham unveils portable 90W converter for medical applications
Power supplies and devices : 08 September, 2010
Gresham Power Electronics introduces a portable 90W converter that can be powered from many different sources.
 
Saint Barnabas Medical installs AutoPulse non-invasive cardiac support pump
Cardiac devices and equipment : 03 September, 2010
Saint Barnabas Medical Center, one of the largest non-profit, non-sectarian hospitals in New Jersey, installs ZOLL Medical’s AutoPulse Non-Invasive Cardiac Support Pump for resuscitative capabilities in the hospital’s emergency department.
 
Medicity approves new chronic HCV Infection treatment programme
Drug delivery equipment : 31 August, 2010
The Medanta Independent Ethics Committee (MIEC) at Medanta, The Medicity Institute (Medicity) approves a treatment programme entitled: 'Use of the Aethlon Hemopurifier in Treating Chronic HCV Infection in Combination with Standard of Care (SOC) Drug Therapy.'
 
CareFusion launches vertebral balloon to support kyphoplasty procedures
Balloons : 31 August, 2010
CareFusion announces the US launch of the AVAmax Vertebral Balloon, a minimally invasive device for use during kyphoplasty, a procedure for treating spinal compression fractures.
 
SonoSite receives FDA clearance for catheter guidance system
Catheters : 27 August, 2010
SonoSite receives FDA clearance for its innovative LumenVu Catheter Guidance System which has been designed to aid in the placement of peripherally inserted central catheters (PICC).
 
Cook releases five-lumen central venous catheter for European physicians
Catheters : 27 August, 2010
With the addition of the new five-lumen central venous catheter (CVC), Cook Medical is now offering a full line of Spectrum technology products for physicians and patients in Europe.
 
Oridion appoints IMI to distribute capnography monitoring systems in Japan
Gas analysers and gas equipment : 18 August, 2010
Oridion signs a new agreement with IMI, a leading distributor of medical equipment in Japan, that provides Oridion with the opportunity to further expand into the Japanese market with its line of Microstream capnography monitoring products.
 
Medtronic unveils new patient care centre in Beijing
Cardiac devices and equipment : 11 August, 2010
Medtronic opens a Patient Care Centre in Beijing, China, the first of its kind in China and worldwide where patients and their relatives meet with medical technology experts and physicians to discuss medical technology options to treat the patient's chronic disease.
 
B Braun offers access to Zynx Health Device Network's Prime-A-Pump drug library
Pumps and dispensers : 09 August, 2010
B Braun Medical 'smart' pumps are to become even smarter when customers gain premier access to customised, evidence-based drug libraries provided by the Zynx Health Device Network's Prime-A-Pump, a web-based, customisable program for creating and updating drug libraries.
 
Compact filtered AC connector offers price performance benefits
Connectors : 09 August, 2010
Schurter is expanding its ECO designed filtered IEC inlet family to include a version with flexible wire leads and a version for PCB mounting.
 
Rugged monitor/defibrillator targets military and air medical operations
Cardiac devices and equipment : 03 August, 2010
Zoll Medical receives 510(k) clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration to market and begin distribution of the new Propaq MD Monitor/Defibrillator that was developed specifically to meet the special needs of military customers and air medical operations worldwide.
 
Zoll Medical is cleared to market automated external defibrillators in Japan
Cardiac devices and equipment : 02 August, 2010
Zoll Medical is granted approval by the Japanese Pharmaceutical and Medical Devices Agency (PMDA) to import and distribute the AED Plus and AED Pro ranges of automated external defibrillators in Japan.
 
NDSsi unveils next-generation visualization and informatics platform
Electronic components : 30 July, 2010
NDS Surgical Imaging (NDSsi) is launching its next-generation visualization and informatics platform, the ConnectOR G2, with production units now shipping to customers.
 
Rigel Medical upgrades hand held combination vital sign simulator
Vital signs simulator : 30 July, 2010
Rigel Medical upgrades the company’s hand held combination vital sign simulator UNI-SIM to add further functions to improve the scope of tests the instrument is able to perform.
 
First stroke patients treated with the Concentric’s Merci Retriever in Japan
Catheters : 26 July, 2010
Concentric Medical begins treating the first patient in Japan with the Merci Retriever which is a catheter-based medical device that stroke centres use to remove blood clots from the brains of patients suffering an acute ischemic stroke.
 
Concert launches interventional coronary guidewires family in USA
Guidewires : 16 July, 2010
Concert Medical is launching the 'Conductor' family of Interventional Coronary Guidewires to the US market.
 
First patient is enrolled in MultiSENSE multiple physiologic sensors clinical trial
Cardiac devices and equipment : 12 July, 2010
Boston Scientific enrolls the first patient in its MultiSENSE clinical trial which is designed to evaluate multiple physiologic sensors in the company's COGNIS cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillators (CRT-Ds).
 
Medtronic receives CE Mark for second-generation pacing system
Cardiac devices and equipment : 02 July, 2010
Medtronic receives CE Mark for Ensura MRI SureScan pacing system which is a new option in the second-generation pacing system, available in select European geographies, in a portfolio of devices from Medtronic designed, tested, and approved for use as labelled with MRI machines.
 
Power entry modules feature IEC C8 inlet with a line filter for low power demands
Power supplies and devices : 02 July, 2010
Schurter is expanding its family of Power Entry Modules with the addition of a new and compact filtered appliance inlet according IEC, style C8.
 
St Jude Medical enters irrigated catheter ablation market in Japan
Catheters : 28 June, 2010
St Jude Medical receives Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) approval and reimbursement approval of its Therapy Cool Path Ablation Catheter which marks the company's first entry into the irrigated catheter ablation market in Japan.
 
New report by TUFTS identifies growth in centralized ECG services
Cardiac devices and equipment : 24 June, 2010
A new report, conducted by the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development, maps the growing adoption of centralized ECG (electrocardiogram) services.
 
Boston Scientific expands balloon sizes of peripheral dilatation system
Balloons : 23 June, 2010
Boston Scientific adds 22 new balloon sizes to the PolarCath Peripheral Dilatation System, including balloon lengths of 120 and 150 mm.
 
Industry’s first flexible tip ablation catheter receives CE Mark
Catheters : 22 June, 2010
St Jude Medical receives European CE Mark approval of the Therapy Cool Flex Ablation Catheter at the 17th World Congress in Cardiac Electrophysiology and Cardiac Techniques (CardioStim).
 
Anatomically-designed catheters reduce lab time for PVI by 35 percent
Catheters : 22 June, 2010
Data from the FAST-PVI study, supported by Medtronic, shows lab times using anatomically-designed ablation catheters are more than one-third (35 percent) faster than traditional point-by-point focal ablation procedures in achieving pulmonary vein isolation (PVI).
 
St Jude Medical enrolls first patient in novel heart failure management trial
Cardiac devices and equipment : 21 June, 2010
St Jude Medical announces the first enrollment in its LAPTOP-HF (Left Atrial Pressure Monitoring to Optimize Heart Failure Therapy) study.
 
ZOLL Medical wins deal to supply AEDs to British Heart Foundation
Cardiac devices and equipment : 21 June, 2010
The British Heart Foundation (BHF) designates ZOLL Medical as a nominated supplier.
 
Micrus Endovascular plans to market microcoils in Japan
Cardiac devices and equipment : 21 June, 2010
Micrus Endovascular receives Shonin approval from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare to market in Japan its novel bare platinum and Cerecyte DeltaPaq filling and DeltaPlush finishing microcoils for the treatment of cerebral aneurysms and treatments in the peripheral vasculature.
 
Medtronic launches new ICDs and CRT-Ds for European customers
Cardiac devices and equipment : 21 June, 2010
Medtronic launches its Protecta portfolio of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) and cardiac resynchronization therapy-defibrillators (CRT-Ds) for European customers.
 
New technology determines catheter tip-to-tissue contact during ablation
Catheters : 18 June, 2010
St Jude Medical receives European CE Mark approval for its the EnSite Contact Technology platform.
 
New bradycardia systems are compatible with MRI scans
Cardiac devices and equipment : 17 June, 2010
Biotronik SE is introducing the new ProMRI Pacing Systems - Evia pacemaker series and Safio pacing leads - providing European patients with the first portfolio of bradycardia systems that are compatible with Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scans under specific conditions.
 
AtriCure’s AtriClip system receives FDA 510(k) clearance
Cardiac devices and equipment : 16 June, 2010
AtriCure receives clearance from the FDA for its AtriClip Gillinov-Cosgrove Left Atrial Appendage Exclusion system.
 
Greatbatch Medical to provide St Jude Medical with filtered feedthroughs
Cardiac devices and equipment : 14 June, 2010
Greatbatch Medical is selected by St Jude Medical as the exclusive partner for filtered feedthroughs used in cardiac rhythm management devices.
 
Sorin Group acquires Gish Biomedical from private equity group
Cardiac devices and equipment : 10 June, 2010
Sorin Group acquires Gish Biomedical from Ventizz Capital Partners, a private equity group focused on technology-oriented companies.
 
Rush University Medical Center turns to Barco to enhance healthcare imaging
Displays and monitors : 07 June, 2010
Barco is installing nearly 100 MDRC-2120 clinical review displays and Coronis Fusion 6MP DL large-screen diagnostic displays at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
 
B Braun Medical plans to build infusion technology facility in Germany
Pumps and dispensers : 04 June, 2010
B Braun Medical is constructing a new infusion technology facility at the company's global headquarters in Melsungen, Germany.
 
Concentric's distal access neurovascular catheter family is granted CE Mark
Catheters : 04 June, 2010
Concentric Medical’s DAC family of distal access catheters receives the CE Mark.
 
Portable vital signs simulator offers time and cost saving benefits
Vital signs simulator : 28 May, 2010
The UniSIM vital signs simulator now available from Rigel Medical is the only simulator of its type which enables medical device engineers to quickly, easily and accurately undertake NIBP, SpO2, ECG, temperature, IBP and respiration functionality tests simultaneously using a single portable instrument.
 
St Jude Medical evaluates cost-effectiveness of FFR-guided treatment
Guidewires : 28 May, 2010
St Jude Medical is to evaluate the incremental cost-effectiveness of Fractional Flow Reserve (FFR)-guided treatment for patients with multivessel coronary artery disease in the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium and Canada.
 
Syringe infuser enables cost-effective intermittent antibiotic dose deliveries
Pumps and dispensers : 26 May, 2010
Baxa releases the InFuse T-10 Syringe Infuser which is specifically designed for the delivery of intermittent antibiotics and other non-rate critical intravenous doses, the Baxa InFuse T-10 Syringe Infuser frees up expensive, smart infusion pumps for more critical applications and gives nurses more time to focus on patient care.
 
New Embrella aortic embolic protection device receives CE Mark
Cardiac devices and equipment : 24 May, 2010
Embrella Cardiovascular’s Embrella Embolic Deflector, an aortic embolic protection device which acts as a protective shield to reduce the incidence of embolization to the brain has received CE mark certification.
 
Biotronik’s Evia pacemaker is fitted to first US patient
Pacemakers : 24 May, 2010
Biotronik reports that 14-year-old Maria Stebbins of Washington, DC became the first patient in the United States to receive Biotronik’s newly FDA-approved Evia pacemaker.
 
New pulse oximeter offers improved telehealth integration
Pulse oximeters : 19 May, 2010
Cardiocom releases its new pulse oximeter, which is an in-house developed pulse oximeter designed to offer better integration with its telehealth platform.
 
St Jude Medical partners iRhythm Technologies to develop cardiac rhythm monitor
Cardiac devices and equipment : 18 May, 2010
St Jude Medical and iRhythm Technologies, a privately-held company, enter into partnership with a focus on iRhythm's Zio Patch.
 
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