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The new Baby Pod 20’s design and build at Williams Advanced Engineering is briefly profiled in a short video for BBC Business, explaining the cross-over of technologies in between Formula 1 and medicine in using design principles and strong and lightweight materials to ensure patient safety during transport Baby Pod 20 – BBC Business ...

By Advanced Healthcare Technology Ltd. (AHT)

The intent of this guide is to identify the general performance and good practice standards that a pelvic ring circumferential compression stabilization device (PRCCSD) should possess. Currently, a number of base platforms such as full-body spinal immobilization devices (long boards) are used to immobilize patients during transport and before definitive treatment. These platforms limit gross ...

By ASTM International

Hyperfine, Inc. (Nasdaq:HYPR), creator of Swoop®, the first FDA-cleared portable magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system™, is proud to announce that Queen’s University and Kingston Health Sciences Centre are deploying a Swoop system as part of their health services benefitting six communities located in the James Bay and Hudson Bay Area. Until now, patients needing routine or ...

By Hyperfine

You wish the best for your patients, and following surgery or treatment, it is imperative to understand how their bodies are reacting. Obviously this concerns following up at intervals. However, patients are often under the impression that following up is unnecessary and expensive if they feel fine. The cardiac monitor experts at Medicomp take a look at the realities of patient follow-ups. ...

By Medicomp Inc.

RevMedx, Inc., a leader in groundbreaking solutions for the control of severe bleeding, today announced that the CoTCCC has added the TX Series ratcheting tourniquets to its list of recommended Limb Tourniquets. The TX series joins the XSTAT® injectable hemostatic on the TCCC list of recommended hemorrhage control devices for casualty care. Andrew Barofsky, President and CEO of RevMedx, ...

By RevMedx

Sunday 5th September our PTR Robot was featured on Danish TV, about the robot being deployed at the new hospital, Region Sealand University Hospital Koege. To see video, please click here The public was invited to an open hospital event in Koege at the Region Zealand University Hospital. The 600 million euro development project includes a brand new 140.000 m2 hospital building with 789 single ...

By PTR Robots | Part of Blue Ocean Robotics

We are delighted to highlight two studies produced by the Blue Ocean Robotics team together with our product specialist, Britta Geleijns. These studies are based on the development and testing of the PTR Robot. Both presentations will be presented at the IROS 2021 conference, International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. Developing Ethical AI-Supported Healthcare Robots The former ...

By PTR Robots | Part of Blue Ocean Robotics

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO), the world leader in serving science, today announced it has received a contract from the U.S. government to provide highly specialized viral transport media (VTM) for COVID-19 sample collection. The VTM is used during collection of patient samples for proper transport to laboratories that can test for the presence of the virus. To ensure accuracy of ...

By Thermo Fisher Scientific, LIMS & Laboratory Software

QUANTA Dialysis Technologies Ltd (“QUANTA” or the “Company”), a medical technology company committed to making kidney care more accessible with its SC+ haemodialysis system, has released a new report that suggests people with kidney failure who wish to do home dialysis face unequal access across the UK. The Bridging the Gap report finds that failure to offer such treatment ...

By QUANTA Dialysis Technologies

In a world with increasing labor shortages and a growing ageing population, demand for service robots that can assist companies and institutions is growing. This is why Blue Ocean Robotics, Europe’s largest manufacturer of service robots, has now strengthened its financial muscle, enabling the company to roll out its sustainable mobile robot solutions all over the world. Service robots are ...

By Blue Ocean Robotics

Synaptive Medical, a leader in robotic surgical and imaging technologies, announced today the company has established a partnership with O-Two Medical Technologies, Inc., a world leader in controlled ventilation, for the production of O-Two’s e700 portable transport ventilator for patients impacted worldwide by COVID-19. As part of the agreement, Synaptive will leverage its expertise in ...

By Synaptive Medical

CoapTech, a leading medical device start-up pioneering the world’s first and only ultrasound-based feeding tube placement system, announced the closing of a Series B investment of $7 million led by medical device venture capital firm Hunniwell Lake Ventures. They will use funds to commercialize the First FDA-cleared, Ultrasound-based system for Feeding Tube Placement. CoapTech Inc ...

By CoapTech

World Humanitarian Day, 19th August 2015 19th August marks World Humanitarian Day. This year people are donating their social media newsfeeds to give a voice to the voiceless. Read and share these 6 compelling stories of incredible resilience, courage and survival. Baby in the Rubble: Syria’s White Helmets Khaled Farah is a first responder for the White Helmets in Syria’s ...

By DelAgua Group

Portsmouth, N.H. – IV dislodgement is a near-daily problem for clinicians and their patients, according to a recent focus group of vascular access experts. The clinicians also reported there is a need for better technology to mitigate the potentially serious consequences of frequent IV dislodgements. “This research discussion addressed a frustrating problem that those of us in ...

By Linear Health Sciences

BioTrace Medical, Inc., the leader in innovative temporary pacing technology, today announced the company’s key activities at the Annual Transcatheter Valve Therapy Structural Heart Summit (TVT 2019), which will take place June 12-15 at the Sheraton Grand Chicago. The company’s Tempo Temporary Pacing Lead will be featured in a symposium titled “Improving Safety & Reducing ...

By BioTrace Medical Inc

The environmental and infection control experts at EC2 provide prevention services, inspections and solutions for healthcare facilities battling C. diff threats. Just last week it was reported that an outbreak of C. difficile (C. diff) at a Canadian hospital has already infected 63 patients. The outbreak has caused at least one confirmed death and possibly six others. This latest ...

By Cochrane & Associates, LLC

BioTrace Medical, Inc., the leader in innovative temporary pacing technology, today announced the company’s Tempo Lead has obtained CE Mark certification in Europe for use in cardiac procedures requiring temporary intracardiac pacing. BioTrace Medical’s Tempo Temporary Pacing Lead is designed for safer, more secure and stable pacing to reduce intraprocedural complications, ...

By BioTrace Medical Inc

ELITechGroup Molecular Diagnostics announce today the CE-IVD marking of the CRE ELITe MGB kit, a high-performance, qualitative, multiplex assay for the rapid detection of the Carbapenem Resistance genes of Enterobacteriaceae. In combination with the ELITe InGenius™, the ELITech Group’s fully automated sample-to-result system, the assay is intended to detect 150 variants belonging to ...

By ELITechGroup

Third Pole Therapeutics, a privately held company developing and delivering transformative cardio-pulmonary therapies, announced today that it has entered into a strategic collaboration to work with Actelion Pharmaceuticals Ltd, a Janssen pharmaceutical company of Johnson & Johnson. The collaboration will bring the global resources and know-how of the largest and most respected healthcare ...

By Third Pole Therapeutics, Inc.

The Telegraph reported last week about the risk of infection to hospital patients due to exposure to pillows that may be contaminated with a host of microbial pathogens. The article discusses a new study conducted by The Barts and The London NHS Trust that found 30 different types of possible infections in pillows taken from hospital wards. Potential exposure to C. diff and MRSA were just a few ...

By Cochrane & Associates, LLC