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S.F.-based startup raises $25M to expand blood collection technologies
San Francisco medical device company Velano Vascular closed a $25 million second round of financing, bringing its total overall to $50 million. The new capital will go toward expanding its needle-less blood draw device and to developing new technologies. CEO Eric Stone would not reveal what these new technologies will entail but said they will fall within the company’s mission ...
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Wired: This startup wants to stop deaths from cardiac arrest?
In April 2013, final-year Danish medical student Habib Frost was called out to an emergency: a four-month old girl had just suffered cardiac arrest. Frost’s team tried defibrillation, but to no avail. Immediately after, the team was called out again: another case of cardiac arrest, this time a woman in her 30s. Once again, Frost was powerless to save her life. “I felt ...
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Biomodex Teams Up with Physicians at Three of the World’s Top Medical Centers to Develop a Cutting-Edge Training Solution for Treatment of Ischemic Stroke
BIOMODEX, a pioneering digital health company that offers a unique and enhanced 3D printed solution for physician training, announced today the company has partnered with two of the top medical centers in France and a world-class health system in the United States to develop EVIAS Plus - an innovative training solution for treatment of ischemic stroke. Ischemic stroke accounts for about 87 ...
By BIOMODEX
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VeinViewer Vein Finding Technology Arrives at Baylor Nursing School
The Baylor University Louise Herrington School of Nursing received an in-kind gift from Christie Medical Holdings, Inc. of a VeinViewer® Vision vein finder for the nursing school simulation lab. This donation will help students as they learn how to start an IV and draw blood, combining technology with traditional technique. “VeinViewer is a wonderful new addition to our Simulation Lab ...
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Christie Medical Holdings, Inc., & B. Braun Medical Announce Collaboration Aimed at Improving Peripheral IV Access Success
Christie® Medical Holdings, Inc., with its market-leading vein finder technology, VeinViewer® system, today announced an alliance with B. Braun Medical Inc., a leader in infusion therapy and pain management. Intravenous (IV) therapy plays a central role in patient care with as many as 90 percent of hospital patients receiving a peripheral IV catheter as part of their treatment plan. Many ...
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Why ISC Users Choose HR Lubricating Jelly for Self-Catheterization
Millions of people rely on self-catheterization to empty their bladder due to conditions such as urinary bladder retention, spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, multiple sclerosis, and more. If you are an uncoated straight catheter user, a high-quality sterile catheter lubricant is an important addition to your catheter regimen to ensure a comfortable experience and reduce pain, ...
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CoapTech, LLC, And University of Maryland, Baltimore Set Stage To Commercialize Novel Procedure For Placing Feeding Tubes
Start-up Company Developing Safer, Less Expensive Gastrostomy Method CoapTech Receives Maryland Innovative Initiative Award to Further Advance the Technology University of Maryland (UM) Ventures and CoapTech, LLC, announced today that the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) has granted CoapTech exclusive licensing rights for the commercial development of a platform technology called ...
By CoapTech
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Second Heart Assist to Present Clinical Data at American Society for Artificial Internal Organs 66th Annual Conference
Salt Lake City, UT (April 30th, 2020) – Following blind peer review, Second Heart Assist’s clinical data presentation has been selected for oral presentation at the American Society of Artificial Organs (ASAIO) 66th annual conference, scheduled to be held entirely virtual by video June 10th-13th, 2020. The Second Heart Assist abstract will be published in the ASAIO Journal and will ...
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1 out of 10 survive cardiac arrest, a new device under FDA review hopes to change that
KEY POINTS Cardiac arrest is one of the leading causes of death in the U.S. and globally. It has a survival rate of 1 in 10 people with current treatment. The Neurescue device is designed to increase blood flow to the brain and heart during life-threatening emergencies such as cardiac arrest. Cardiac arrest is one of the leading causes of death around the world, ...
By Neurescue
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Novel Securement Device Making Inroads
AVA Scientific Meeting 2019 highlights key opportunities for improvement in vascular access from process bundles to emerging new products Introduction Acknowledgment of the importance of the vascular access nurse and team were obvious at this year’s Association for Vascular Access (AVA) Annual Scientific meeting. When Ramzy Nasrallah took over as CEO for the Association of Vascular Access ...
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First U.S. patients with persistent cardiac arrythmias treated using Volta Medical’s artificial intelligence-based analysis
Volta Medical, a pioneering health tech company developing artificial intelligence (AI)-based software solutions to treat cardiac arrythmias, today announced the introduction of its leading-edge product, VX1, at three leading U.S. hospitals. New York Presbyterian Queens, Northwell Health’s Lenox Hill Hospital both in New York City, and Ascension St. Vincent’s Riverside, Jacksonville, ...
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Medtronic to Acquire Avenu Medical
Medtronic plc (NYSE:MDT), the global leader in medical technology, today announced the planned acquisition of Avenu Medical, a privately held medical device company based in San Juan Capistrano, Calif. focused on the endovascular (minimally invasive) creation of arteriovenous (AV) fistulae for patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) undergoing dialysis. Terms of the transaction were not ...
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Differences Between Spinal Blocks & Epidurals
The biggest difference between spinal blocks vs epidurals is their amount of pain relief: spinal blocks provide total pain relief, while epidurals provide partial pain relief. The reason for this difference is that the former is an anesthetic, while the latter is an analgesic—no sensation versus no pain. But pain elimination comes with a total lack of feeling in the lower body, due to ...
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What to Expect for an Epidural Injection
Roughly 8% of U.S. adults suffer from persistent or chronic back pain. That’s around 65 million people who are prevented from engaging in daily activities. Many are forced to miss days of work due to injury. With rising healthcare costs, many back pain sufferers think that they are left without a real solution, until they try epidural injections. An epidural injection is the infusion of ...
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Bluegrass Vascular Announces Decision by Medicare to Assign a New Technology Ambulatory Payment Classification (APC) for the Surfacer System Procedure
Bluegrass Vascular Technologies (Bluegrass Vascular), a private medical technology company focused on innovating lifesaving devices and methods for vascular access procedures, announced today that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has finalized a new Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) code and New Technology Ambulatory Payment Classification (APC) assignment ...
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