Patient Isolation Articles & Analysis
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PeriGen®, an innovator in perinatal early warning systems, today announced that Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, a 519-bed acute care teaching hospital and trauma center that is part of the not-for-profit Cottage Health system, is now using PeriGen’s PeriWatch Vigilance® automated maternal-fetal early warning system (EWS) in its labor and delivery (L&D) department. Founded in ...
atHeart Medical, a medical device company dedicated to establishing the new standard of care for closure of atrial septal defects (ASD), today announced it has received approval for the start of the second phase of its ASCENT ASD U.S. Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) pivotal trial. The prospective, single-arm study is evaluating the safety and efficacy of the reSept™ ASD Occluder, ...
atHeart Medical has received approval for the start of the second phase of its ASCENT ASD U.S. Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) pivotal trial. The prospective, single-arm study is evaluating the safety and efficacy of the reSept™ ASD Occluder, the first occluder with a metal-free, bioresorbable frame, for the treatment of patients with clinically significant, isolated ASDs. Primary ...
BackBeat CNT treated patients experienced a mean reduction of 17.5 mmHg in office systolic blood pressure measured 24-months following therapy activation. Patients with Isolated Systolic Hypertension (ISH) treated with BackBeat CNT experienced clinically meaningful and statistically significant reductions of 7.4 mmHg in ambulatory systolic blood pressure and 9.4 mmHg in ambulatory Pulse ...
Double-blind, randomized trial data show a clinically meaningful and statistically significant net reduction of 8.1 mmHg in 24-hour ambulatory systolic blood pressure at 6 months in treated vs. control patients Very high (85%) response rate to therapy despite 81% of treated patients having isolated systolic hypertension (ISH), a more dangerous and difficult to treat form of hypertension ...
SAN CARLOS, California, July 28, 2021 — Galaxy Medical announced today that the ECLIPSE-AF 90-day remapping data, presented at the Stanford BioDesign New Arrhythmia Technologies retreat, demonstrated durable lesions and chronic pulmonary vein isolation (PVI). Also, the company has recently treated patients in the same study using CE-Marked catheters and mapping systems from Boston ...
atHeart Medical, a medical device company dedicated to establishing the new standard of care for closure of atrial septal defects (ASD), today announced the successful treatment of the first five patients in its ASCENT ASD U.S. Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) pivotal trial. This study, the company’s first in the US, will evaluate the safety and efficacy of the reSept ASD Occluder. ...
Clinically meaningful and statistically significant reduction of 16.6 mmHg in systolic blood pressure out to two years 88% of the treated patients had isolated systolic hypertension (ISH) 70.6% of all treated patients and 80% of treated ISH patients had their blood pressure under control at 24 months Orchestra BioMed™, Inc., (“Orchestra BioMed” or the ...
atHeart Medical, a medical device company dedicated to establishing the new standard of care for closure of atrial septal defects (ASD), announced today that it has commenced operations and is initiating its U.S. Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) trial. The company is led by seasoned global medtech executive, Laurent Grandidier, with support from an exceptional management team that has ...
Vascular access technology pioneer Velano Vascular this past week made its new streamlined remote training program widely available for hospitals around the nation. Initially developed with existing partners utilizing its PIVO™ needle-free blood draw device in the fight against COVID-19, the platform is now available for additional hospitals and systems in need of streamlined care. A ...
Infection control procedures including work practices, protocols and controls, environmental hygiene, air filtration and appropriate use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) are all necessary to prevent infections from spreading during healthcare service delivery. But in the case of the recent Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak early detection and isolation of potentially infectious patients is ...
Double-blind, randomized trial data demonstrates clinically meaningful and statistically significant difference of 8.1 mmHg in reduction of 24-hour ambulatory systolic blood pressure at 6 months vs. control High responder rate despite 88.5% of treated patients having isolated systolic hypertension (ISH) Primary safety endpoint achieved with no difference in major cardiac adverse events ...
The antimicrobial delafloxacin, and the combination of meropenem and vaborbactam are now available on FDA-cleared microbroth dilution susceptibility plates, expanding antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) options for microbiology laboratories, and providing the results clinicians need to make treatment decisions. Delafloxacin is available for testing select fastidious and non-fastidious Gram ...
Today DNV GL announced a new certification program aimed at transforming hospitals’ approach to managing infection risk. DNV GL certified Sentara Leigh and Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospitals in Virginia as the first two Centers of Excellence for its Managing Infection Risk (MIR) Certification, recognizing exceptional processes and an approach to mitigating infection risk that exceeds ...