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.
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Emergency Physicians Help Develop Negative-Pressure ULPA Filtration System
Inspired by the COVID-19 pandemic, emergency physicians have teamed up with product development firm ROBRADY to create a portable negative-pressure ultra-low particulate air, or ULPA, filtration system.
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Respiratory Motion Debuts ExSpiron2Xi
Watertown, Mass.-based Respiratory Motion Inc., a manufacturer of noninvasive respiratory volume-monitoring technologies, announces the launch of the digital ExSpiron2Xi—its first product launch since 2017.
Philips Debuts QuickClear Mechanical Thrombectomy System
Royal Philips announces the launch of the U.S. FDA 510(k)-cleared QuickClear mechanical thrombectomy system, which provides an all-in-one aspiration pump and catheter for the removal of blood clots from the vessels of the peripheral arterial and venous systems.
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Nihon Kohden Launches Pop-Up ICU Solution
Nihon Kohden announces the launch of its NK-HealthProtect Pop-up ICU Solution, an all-inclusive 16-bed system for the intensive care unit.
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Researchers 3D Print Lifelike Heart Valve Models
Researchers from the University of Minnesota, with support from Medtronic, have developed a groundbreaking process for multi-material 3D printing of lifelike models of the heart’s aortic valve and the surrounding structures that mimic the exact look and feel of a real patient.
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Heart-Lung Bypass Machines Lead to Better Outcomes for COVID-19 Patients
Adding another mechanical support system—extracorporeal membrane oxygenation or ECMO—for COVID-19 patients on ventilators resulted in 96% of patients surviving over a 44-day period, a new study finds.
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COVID-19’s Biggest Supply Chain Bottleneck Is Not Ventilators, It’s Oxygen Delivery
Officials at Boise, Idaho-based oxygen equipment company MGI Inc., say the biggest bottleneck in treating COVID-19 patients isn’t ventilator and personal protective equipment shortages. It’s something much simpler: oxygen delivery.
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FDA Grants Premarket Approval to Two Philips AEDs
Royal Philips announces that the U.S. FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health has granted premarket approval for the company’s HeartStart FR3 and HeartStart FRx AEDs, and their supporting accessories, including batteries and pads.
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Wearable Device May Help Prevent Unexpected Death in Epilepsy
SUDEP is defined as the sudden and unexpected, non-traumatic, and non-drowning death of a person with epilepsy. Now, a Purdue University-affiliated startup is developing a device to help stop this deadly condition.
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Russia’s Ventilators: Plentiful, But Often Old and Sometimes Broken
Russia may seem well equipped to handle the coronavirus pandemic—the nation reportedly has 27 ventilators per 100,000 citizens, compared to 18.8 per 100,000 in the United States—but there is much more to the story, experts say.
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The ABCs of AEDs
There are numerous differences between an automated external defibrillator (AED) and a “standard” defibrillator. enBio Corp. CEO Arthur Zenian spells out the ways here.
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When Ventilators Don’t Help COVID-19 Patients, This Might
Ventilators have gotten a lot of attention in the ongoing fight against COVID-19. But hundreds of hospitals around the world have another, less-publicized weapon that might help some of the most desperately ill patients survive when ventilators aren’t enough.
Read MoreRepurposed Industrial Respirator Could Free Ventilators for COVID-19 Patients
To help with the COVID-19 pandemic, University of Michigan researchers have developed a new, portable, and mass-producible helmet system that can potentially transform any hospital bed into a negative pressure room, while protecting caregivers, and sparing ventilators for the most critical cases.
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Noninvasive Ventilators Offer Life-Saving Treatment for Less-Severe COVID Patients
New clinical evidence produced in recent weeks has shown the benefits of noninvasive ventilators for use in less-severe cases of COVID-19-related respiratory problems, which constitute the majority of cases nationwide.
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