Archive for the 'Medical Devices / Diagnostics' Category


The Methodist Hospital Only In U.S. To Offer Life-Sustaining, Portable Heart/Lung Machine

The Methodist Hospital is the first in the U.S. to use a portable heart/lung machine to move critically ill patients easily and safely to different areas of the hospital for medical tests or from outlying hospitals to the medical center for specialized treatment. Recently approved for use in the U.S. by the FDA, the device has been used in Europe since 2008 with excellent results...
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07/21/2010 | Respiratory & Asthma - Medical Devices / Diagnostics | Trackback | Comments Off

Living, Breathing, Human Lung-On-A-Chip Developed By Researchers

Researchers from the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, Harvard Medical School and Children's Hospital Boston have created a device that mimics a living, breathing human lung on a microchip. The device, about the size of a rubber eraser, acts much like a lung in a human body and is made using human lung and blood vessel cells...
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06/27/2010 | Respiratory & Asthma - Medical Devices / Diagnostics | Trackback | Comments Off

Portable Respiratory Support Device Helps Infants With Respiratory Ailments

Gently, gently. That's how babies should be handled, and it was the prime consideration when a team of Rice University seniors developed a device that could save babies' lives. The Baby Bubbler - or in its more technical guise, the Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) device - helps children with acute respiratory infections breathe naturally as they recover...
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06/08/2010 | Respiratory & Asthma - Medical Devices / Diagnostics | Trackback | Comments Off

FDA Classifies Baxter’s January HomeChoice Peritoneal Dialysis Cycler Field Corrective Action As A Class I Recall

Baxter Healthcare Corporation announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has classified Baxter's recent Urgent Product Recall regarding Increased Intraperitoneal Volume (IIPV), or overfill of the abdominal cavity, associated with HomeChoice and HomeChoice Pro peritoneal dialysis cyclers as a Class I recall...
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03/04/2010 | Respiratory & Asthma - Medical Devices / Diagnostics | Trackback | Comments Off

Life-Saving, Low-Cost Ventilators For Emergency, Rural And Military Use Developed By Doctors

A group of UK anaesthetists have designed and tested three prototype low-cost ventilators that could provide vital support during major healthcare emergencies involving large numbers of patients or casualties. The devices, detailed in a paper published online by Anaesthesia, could also be used where resources are limited, such as in developing countries, remote locations or by the military...
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01/26/2010 | Respiratory & Asthma - Medical Devices / Diagnostics | Trackback | Comments Off

New Certified Reference Materials Offer Greater Certainty In Monitoring 3 Therapeutic Medications

To help bring greater certainty to the measurement of medication levels in a patient's bloodstream for three drugs with narrow therapeutic ranges, the U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) is releasing new certified reference materials (CRMs).
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11/20/2009 | Respiratory & Asthma - Medical Devices / Diagnostics | Trackback | Comments Off

Making Difficult Intubations Easier

A new tool developed by a Medical College of Georgia resident and faculty member may make it easier to place assisted breathing devices under difficult circumstances. About 2 percent of patients that undergo the process, called intubation, experience complications - regardless if it's performed in an emergency situation or prior to surgery.
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10/17/2009 | Respiratory & Asthma - Medical Devices / Diagnostics | Trackback | Comments Off

Rapid Viral Diagnosis Tests In Emergency Rooms Show Promising Results

Rapid viral diagnosis tests for respiratory diseases in children who arrive in emergency departments have the potential to reduce pressures on health systems by enabling doctors to reach a quicker diagnosis, according to Cochrane Researchers. However, they say larger trials are needed to confirm this finding.
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10/08/2009 | Respiratory & Asthma - Medical Devices / Diagnostics | Trackback | Comments Off

Minimal Training Required For Insertion Of Life-Saving Airway Mask

Virtually anyone has the skills to safely insert a laryngeal mask airway (LMA) to keep a patient's airway open during resuscitation, and medical expertise isn't required - perhaps just a familiarity with ER, House or Grey's Anatomy. A study, published in the open access journal BMC Emergency Medicine, also found that just two hours of training was enough to make first-responders faster and more efficient during these highly critical situations.
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09/22/2009 | Respiratory & Asthma - Medical Devices / Diagnostics | Trackback | Comments Off

Monitoring Pollution And Detecting Disease Using Portable And Precise Gas Sensor

In the air, it is a serious pollutant. In the body, it plays a role in heart rate, blood flow, nerve signals and immune function. Nitric oxide, a gas well known to scientists for its myriad functions, has proven challenging to measure accurately outside the laboratory. A team of Princeton and Rice University researchers has demonstrated a new method of identifying the gas using lasers and sensors that are inexpensive, compact and highly sensitive.
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09/21/2009 | Respiratory & Asthma - Medical Devices / Diagnostics | Trackback | Comments Off

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