thoracic News
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ESTS 2020 VC welcomes you
Join us for the most prominent annual online activity #ests2020vc in Thoracic Surgery. We are proud that Reach Surgical’s Endo III stapler and various reload selections play a vital role in helping thoracic surgeons around the world. Enjoy a special video performance of single-port video-assisted thoracoscopic lung segmentectomy by Professor Yuming Zhu and many others at the virtual ...
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Sokolov, Czech Republic - Surgeons testing SOLOASSIST II
The SOLOASSIST II robotic assistant is expanding its range of applications in Russia. On 26th of March 2020 it was first used in the endoscopic separation of the internal thoracic artery by specialists of Clinical Unit 3. The operation was performed at the Federal State Budgetary Institution "NMIC Cardiology" of the Russian Ministry of Health. The doctors noted the exceptional simplicity and ...
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Johnson & Johnson Institutes launches COVID-19 Community Hub
AIS with collaboration with Johnson & Johnson Institute has launched a special website dedicated to internal and external content to help healthcare workers keep up on the latest news on COVID-19. The site features: Webinars presented by physicians and leaders in the battle against COVID-19 The New Normal in Elective Surgery Thoracic Surgery on the Frontline of COVID-19 Managing ...
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Versius has indication extended into thoracic surgery
CMR Surgical (CMR) today announced the Versius Surgical Robotic System® has been indicated for thoracics to support surgeons providing minimally invasive surgery to patients undergoing operations in the lungs, thymus and oesophagus. Following a gradual introduction with specific case and procedure selection, Versius has now been used in both major and minor cases including oesophagomyotomies, ...
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Respiratory Solutions For Treatment Of Lung Patients – Broncholab
Broncholab™, developed and implemented by Fluidda, is a platform where CT-scan data of individual persons can be uploaded and analyzed with FRI-technology. The result of this analysis is then sent to the attending physician alone, observing all privacy requirements. Broncholab provides physicians with reproducible CT values for pulmonary tissue for providing quantitative support for ...
By Fluidda
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Lung Cancer Breath ‘Signature’ Presents Promise for Earlier Diagnosis
Founded in 1964, The Society of Thoracic Surgeons is a not-for-profit organization representing more than 7,200 cardiothoracic surgeons, researchers, and allied health care professionals worldwide who are dedicated to ensuring the best possible outcomes for surgeries of the heart, lung, and esophagus, as well as other surgical procedures within the chest. The Society’s mission is to enhance ...
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IONIQ Presents Lung Cancer Trial Results at ATS 2022
IONIQ Sciences is proud of our team members who presented our latest lung cancer clinical trial results in a poster today at the American Thoracic Society meeting in San Francisco, CA. This was a great honor to highlight our growing bioimpedance clinical evidence that continues to demonstrate the possibility of a non-invasive, low-cost, early-stage lung cancer diagnosis. Furthermore, the ...
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RIVANNA Announces Partnership with BOMImed to Increase Distribution of Accuro in Canada
RIVANNA®, developers of world-first, imaging-based medical solutions, announced they have entered into a partnership with BOMImed, a recognized manufacturer of anesthesia and critical care related consumables to represent and distribute the Accuro® portfolio of products in Canada. BOMIMED is a choice distribution partner for RIVANNA as its focus is within the fields of anesthesia and ...
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Preclinical results of AdjuCor’s technology to be presented at the upcoming 101st annual meeting of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS)
In another great achievement for AdjuCor’s ground-breaking new technology within a short period of time, its submitted abstract has been accepted for presentation at the prestigious 101st American Association for Thoracic Surgery (#AATS2021). Prof. Stephan Schueler will be presenting specifics relating to the augmentation technology. Professor Stephan Schueler, Head of Mechanical ...
By AdjuCor GmbH
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World`s First Use of Lightpoint Medical`s Robotic Gamma Probe in Lung Surgery Performed in the U.S.
Lightpoint Medical today announced that Dr. Doug Adams, a specialist in robotic thoracic surgery at Bethesda North Hospital (part of TriHealth, Ohio) performed a first-in-the-world lung procedure with SENSEI, the company's new miniature robotic gamma probe. SENSEI is smaller than an AA battery and designed specifically for robotic and minimally-invasive surgery. The miniature size and ...
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VIDEO: Integrating Artificial Intelligence Into Radiologists Workflow
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming more common place in radiology practices, and emerging technologies are providing radiologists with sophisticated detection software to aid their reading and provide support for a busy workflow. With the progression of AI technology, vendors must look not only at what AI can do for the radiologist, but how the radiologist and the technician interact ...
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FRI: In The transition from Research to Clinical Practice
“Quantitative imaging of the airways, for example with functional respiratory imaging (FRI), is evolving from a research tool towards clinical applications” ,Dr. Maarten van den Berge, thoracic physician at the University of Groningen, states in a recently published interview. “For the past 15 years, FEV1 measurements have been the gold standard and are included in the GOLD ...
By Fluidda
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Porsche cars North America and Porsche AG of Stuttgart, Germany to support the quail porsche race car classic
Bonnie Addario of The Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation and Dr. David Jablons, Director of the UCSF Thoracic Oncology Program are honored to announce today that Porsche will be a major collaborator in the October 16, 2011 exclusive QUAIL PORSCHE RACE CAR CLASSIC in Carmel, California at the famed Quail Lodge and Golf Club. This once-in-a-lifetime gathering of vintage Porsche race cars from ...
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CONMED Completes Acquisition of Biorez, Inc.
LARGO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CONMED Corporation (NYSE: CNMD) today announced that it has completed its previously announced acquisition of privately-held Biorez, Inc. Biorez is a medical device start-up based in New Haven, CT and is focused on advancing the healing of soft tissue using its proprietary BioBrace® Implant technology. The BioBrace Implant is an innovative bioinductive ...
By Biorez Inc.
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Versius surgical robot used for first time in an Italian public hospital
CMR Surgical (CMR) – a global surgical robotics business – today announced the introduction of the Versius® Surgical Robotic System, at Policlinico di Milano, a leading research hospital and care institute (IRCCS), and one of the largest healthcare facilities in Lombardy, Italy. Within the hospital, Versius will be used in a multi-specialty robotics programme including thoracic ...
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Lungpacer Medical, Inc. Presentations at American Thoracic Society Conference, Scheduled for May 2020, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
An average of 14,000 pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine clinicians and researchers from around the world attend the ATS multidisciplinary conference each year. Unfortunately, due to the COVID-19 global crisis the 2020 meeting has been cancelled. However, Lungpacer Medical, Inc. is pleased to announce that four preclinical abstracts were accepted for poster presentation, and one for ...
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AIDOC and IMBIO partner to provide an industry first ai solution to prioritize suspected pulmonary embolism and automatically calculate RV/LV ratio
Aidoc, the leading provider of enterprise AI solutions, and Imbio, a leading provider of medical image analysis for pulmonary and cardiothoracic diseases, announced today a partnership intended to provide the world’s first end-to-end AI solution for pulmonary embolism (PE), with the goal of ultimately improving efficiency and quality of pulmonary embolism detection and treatment. ...
By Aidoc
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Endospan Enrolls First Patient in the TRIOMPHE IDE Study
Endospan, a pioneer in off-the-shelf endovascular repair of aortic arch disease, announces the first implant of the NEXUS™ Aortic Arch Stent Graft System on a patient with a thoracic aortic aneurysm as part of the TRIOMPHE Study in Norfolk, Virginia, January 11, 2021. The TRIOMPHE Study is a multi-arm, multi-center, non-randomized, prospective, clinical study to evaluate the safety and ...
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Sommetrics Selected to Present at the Respiratory Innovation Summit
SAN DIEGO, Calif. — MAY 14, 2019 — Sommetrics, a company providing products and services to improve sleep quality, today announced it has been selected to be one of five companies to present at the airways symposium of the Respiratory Innovation Summit in Dallas on May 17, 2019. This Summit is a yearly event held in advance of the American Thoracic Society’s International ...
By Sommetrics
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Stephen Hahn, M.D., former U.S. FDA Commissioner, joins YourBio Health as interim Chief Medical Officer
YourBio Health, Inc., developers of the world’s first painless push-button blood collection device, announced today that Stephen Hahn, M.D. joins as interim Chief Medical Officer; he also serves as the Chief Medical Officer, for the Preemptive Medicine and Health Security initiative at Flagship Pioneering at-large. Dr. Hahn previously served as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ...
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