Category: Patient Care Equipment

Patient Care Equipment

Know Labs Creates New Blood Glucose Monitoring Device

Know Labs has introduced the KnowU, a new portable medical-grade glucose monitoring device that utilizes Bio-RFID, Know Labs’ non-invasive diagnostic technology.

Patient Care Equipment

GM Shop Chair Who Helped Build Ventilators Dies of COVID

An Indiana man, who helped build ventilators, tragically died of COVID-19. Greg Wohlford, a shop chairman for General Motors, helped facilitate the automaker’s ventilators production out of his plant in Kokomo, Ind.

Patient Care Equipment

Medical Mission Trips 101

As a biomed, bringing your talent to a developing world hospital that is struggling for sound medical equipment can be an intensely satisfying experience. For those who are thinking about making a medical mission trip to the developing world for the first time, partnering with an organization that can help prepare supplies and contacts is key to a successful experience.

Infusion Therapy

Baxter Issues Urgent Medical Device Correction for All Spectrum IQ Infusion Pumps

Deerfield, Ill.-based Baxter International Inc. announces that it has issued an Urgent Medical Device Correction for all Spectrum IQ infusion pumps to reinforce important safety information when customers implement changes to their network configuration and server systems.

Life-Support

Simulation-Based Optimization Determines Best Design for Oxygen Concentrators

Anticipating the increased need for better oxygen concentrators as the fight against COVID-19 rages on, researchers at Texas A&M University have laid a computational framework to design the most optimal concentrator to filter ambient air and produce oxygen that can scale with patient demand.

Anesthesia

Medovate Expands SAFIRA Line with Further CE Mark Regulatory Approvals

UK-based medical device development company Medovate announces that it has secured additional CE mark regulatory approvals for its Safer Injection for Regional Anaesthesia, or SAFIRA, technology to include an NRFit syringe and a palm operator.

Ventilators

Researchers Tout ‘Urgent’ Need for Low-Cost Ventilators

At the start of the pandemic, a team developed the low-cost Field Ventilator to treat patients in poor and remote parts of the world. They now hope that the portable device can be used beyond COVID-19 to treat a range of respiratory diseases and patients in need of respiratory support.