University of Utah engineers who built wireless networks that see through walls now are aiming the technology at a new goal: noninvasively measuring the breathing of surgery patients, adults with sleep apnea and babies at risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)…
An artificial lung built by Cleveland researchers has reached efficiencies akin to the genuine organ, using air - not pure oxygen as current man-made lungs require - for the source of the essential element…
National Jewish Health researchers have been awarded more than $400,000 in grants to help develop promising bioscience discoveries into new products, services and businesses. The state of Colorado’s Bioscience Discovery Evaluation Grant Program awarded grants for work on potential new therapies for pulmonary fibrosis, autoimmune disease, cancer and arthritis…
A Senior Design team at Stevens Institute of Technology is working to alleviate pain and other complications that often arise during thoracic surgeries. Five undergraduate Biomedical Engineering students have invented a novel thoracic catheter that overcomes issues of existing catheter design and introduces a potentially profitable new product for the marketplace…
A new kind of sensor could warn emergency workers when carbon filters in the respirators they wear to avoid inhaling toxic fumes have become dangerously saturated…
First there was McSleepy™. Now it’s time to introduce the first intubation robot operated by remote control. This robotic system named The Kepler Intubation System (KIS), and developed by Dr. Thomas M…
Covidien (NYSE: COV), a leading global provider of healthcare products, announced that its new Endo GIA(TM) curved tip and black reloads with Tri-Staple(TM) technology are available in limited release with a full U.S. roll out expected by mid-year…
Covidien (NYSE: COV), a leading global provider of healthcare products and recognized innovator in mechanical ventilation and respiratory care devices, announced that the Puritan Bennett™ 520 ventilator is now available in the European Union. The Puritan Bennett 520 ventilator is compact, lightweight (4.5 kg) and portable…
Covidien (NYSE: COV), a leading global provider of healthcare products and recognized innovator in mechanical ventilation and respiratory care devices, announced the availability of the new Infinity(R) MCable(R) with Nellcor(TM) OxiMax(TM) technology as an integrated component of the Drager Infinity Acute Care System(TM) in Europe. This system includes the portable Infinity M540 monitor…
Covidien (NYSE: COV), a leading global provider of healthcare products and recognized innovator in mechanical ventilation and respiratory care devices, announced that three new platforms for its Puritan Bennett(TM) 840 ventilator — the Puritan Bennett 840 Neonatal ventilator, the Puritan Bennett 840 Universal ventilator and the Puritan Bennett 840 Pediatric-Adult ventilator –…
