catheter placement News
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Hunterdon Healthcare Patients Benefit From Veinviewer To Reduce Sticks And PICCs
Hunterdon Medical Center, a 178-bed non-profit community hospital, and Christie Medical Holdings, Inc., a global leader in portable vein finders, today announced that use of the Christie VeinViewer® Vision2 is helping to improve the level of care provided to their patients. “A key goal for implementation of VeinViewer systems was to decrease the number of central lines placed in favor ...
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Lungpacer Medical Accelerates Pivotal Clinical Study with AeroPace™ System
Lungpacer Medical, a leading medical device innovation company, today announced the introduction of the AeroPace™ System, a next generation product, into the RESCUE 3 pivotal clinical study studying faster ventilator independence. Lungpacer is dedicated to natural breathing by developing minimally invasive technologies designed to help patients wean off mechanical ventilation and breathe on ...
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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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Centerline Biomedical Kicks Off First Clinical Study of Intra-Operative Positioning System Technology
Centerline Biomedical, Inc. (Centerline) announced Tuesday the completion of the first surgical case in its MOTION clinical study of its innovative Intra-Operative Positioning System (IOPS™) surgical navigation platform. The FDA-cleared technology is already being deployed in a controlled launch at Cleveland Clinic and other leading institutions in the United States. The MOTION study will ...
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Bluegrass Vascular Announces Publication Reporting Long-term data following facilitation of HeRO graft placement using the Surfacer System
Bluegrass Vascular Technologies, a private medical technology company focused on innovating lifesaving devices and methods for vascular access procedures, announced today the publication of a report three cases where the Surfacer System was used to help facilitate the placement of the HeRO graft in patients with thoracic central venous obstruction (TCVO) where other methods for crossing the ...
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Bluegrass Vascular Announces New Paper Reporting Ability to Eliminate Use of a Femoral Catheter with the Surfacer System
Bluegrass Vascular Technologies, a private medical technology company focused on innovating lifesaving devices and methods for vascular access procedures, announced today the publication of a case report demonstrating the ability to utilize the Surfacer® System to perform the Inside-Out® procedure and obtain right-sided central venous access in a patient with central venous occlusion and ...
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Oncomfort and Vygon sign international partnership for commercialization of Sedakit™, the Digital Sedation™ Virtual Reality solution
Oncomfort, the Belgian inventor of Digital SedationTM - a new method for relieving patients’ pain and anxiety without medication –, and Vygon, global group specializing in single-use medical devices, today announce their commercial partnership in six European countries. The strong synergy between Vygon's specialization and Oncomfort's fields of application will enable greater ...
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Bluegrass Vascular Technologies Announces Publication of Surfacer System IDE Study Results
Bluegrass Vascular Technologies (Bluegrass Vascular), a private medical technology company focused on innovating lifesaving devices and methods for vascular access procedures, announced today the publication of the results of its prospective, multicenter SAVE-US (Surfacer® System to Facilitate Access in VEnous Occlusions – United States) study in the Journal of Vascular Access. This ...
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NIH Awards Sonavex, Inc. $3 Million Grant to Pursue New Vascular Surgery Applications for EchoMark & EchoSure
Sonavex, Inc., a privately held medical device company focused on empowered patient care, announced that it received a $3 million Phase IIB Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Institutes of Health to use its EchoMark & EchoSure devices to support arteriovenous (AV) fistula maturation and long-term viability. The award provides capital for prospective clinical ...
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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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