Category: Patient Care Equipment

Patient Care Equipment

Pulse Oximeter Helps Clinicians Identify Pediatric Pneumonia Cases in India

Clinicians of a large-field trial of pediatric pneumonia cases in India were able to provide correct referrals of 77.6% of cases of severe pneumonia.

Patient Care Equipment

Home Dialysis System Receives First TPNIES Approval from CMS

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has awarded Outset Medical with the first TPNIES approval to provide additional reimbursement for Tablo home dialysis treatments.

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

Medtronic Infusion Pump Malfunctioned and Stalled, Landing Woman in the Hospital

A Medtronic Infusion Pump is at the center of a lawsuit. A woman in Georgia, who filed the claim on behalf of her friend, alleges the device used to deliver medications, malfunctioned and left her friend in the hospital.

Life-Support

How Artificial Intelligence Is Predicting COVID-19 Patients’ Oxygen Needs

Addenbrooke’s Hospital in England, along with 20 other hospitals from across the world and healthcare technology provider, NVIDIA, have used artificial intelligence to predict COVID-19 patients’ oxygen needs on a global scale.

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

Ventec Life’s V Pro Ventilator Is Reimbursable

Bothell, Wash.-based Ventec Life Systems announces that its standalone V+Pro ventilator is reimbursable.