Doppler Blood Flow Monitor
September 9, 2011 10:11 am | Cook Medical, Inc. | Product Releases | CommentsCook Medical has launched the Doppler DP-M350 Blood Flow Monitor, a medical device for transplant and reconstructive surgery, that monitors blood flow during free flap procedures. According to the company, the monitor has the ability to detect changes in blood flow immediately following transplant and reconstructive surgeries so a surgeon can intervene before free flap failure.
LISTED UNDER: Blood Glucose MonitorsWidescreen Monitor
May 23, 2011 6:35 am | Eizo Nanao Technologies Inc. | Product Releases | CommentsEIZO's RadiForce LS560W is a large widescreen monitor with a 3840 x 2160 native resolution and a 56-inch screen area roughly equal in size to six 1.3 megapixel (1280 x 1024) monitors or four full HD monitors. Compared with multi-monitor scenarios, the LS560W has no regional color differences or obtrusive bezels, thus reducing eye fatigue and the potential for distraction in surgical environments.
LISTED UNDER: MonitorsNormothermia Monitoring And Management System
January 5, 2011 6:14 am | Shafer Enterprises, LLC | Product Releases | CommentsHothead Technologies has executed an agreement with Shafer Medical Devices, a Division of Shafer Enterprises, LLC, to develop and distribute a medical application of the H.O.T.™ System that supports the Shafer Medical Devices’ Hypo/Hyperthermic Pad in managing normothermia in patients during pre-op, surgery, and post-op.
LISTED UNDER: Temperature MonitorsVital Sign Documentation System
November 29, 2010 4:52 am | Welch Allyn | Product Releases | CommentsThe Welch Allyn Connex® Electronic Vitals Documentation (EVD) System provides clinicians in non-critical care settings with immediate access to accurate vital signs. The system includes the Connex® Vital Sign Monitor 6000 Series, which features: A full-color, touch screen device that acts as 3 devices in 1 — providing comprehensive patient documentation on a single display.
LISTED UNDER: Vital Signs MonitorsBrain Monitoring Technology
October 25, 2010 6:11 am | Covidien | Product Releases | CommentsCovidien exhibited new medical technologies and showcased some of its most-innovatiave products at ANESTHESIOLOGY 2010. one of the products included Nellcor™ BIS™ Brain Monitoring technology. According to the company, the Nellcor Bispectral Index (BIS) brain monitoring technology helps provide an insight into the patient-specific effects of anesthesia on the brain.
LISTED UNDER: Vital Signs MonitorsDevice Assesses Oxygen Delivery To Tissue
October 22, 2010 6:28 am | Product Releases | CommentsSpectros offers advanced molecular sensing devices that shed light on life-threatening diseases, including ischemia and cancer. The medical devices build upon optical molecular technologies to speed diagnosis, reduce complications and lower costs. The company’s T-Stat is a device to be labeled by the FDA as “sensitive to Ischemia” and has been proven in multiple trials as an easy-to-use and reliable tool for assessing the adequacy of oxygen delivery to tissue.
LISTED UNDER: Oxygen MonitorNon-Invasive Patient Monitoring
October 19, 2010 7:16 am | Masimo Corp | Product Releases | CommentsThe 2011 Masimo Radical-7® is a non-invasive monitor with new capabilities. According to the company, features include: Measurements—rainbow® Acoustic Monitoring™ for accurate, easy-to-use, patient-tolerant respiration rate (RRa™); rainbow Pulse CO-Oximetry® for hemoglobin (SpHb®), oxygen content (SpOCTM), carboxyhemoglobin (SpCO®), methemoglobin (SpMet®), and Pleth Variability Index (PVI®); and ‘gold-standard’ Masimo SET® pulse oximetry for oxyhemoglobin (SpO2), perfusion index (PI), and pulse rate.
LISTED UNDER: Oxygen MonitorPatient Safety Net™
October 18, 2010 7:04 am | Masimo Corp | Product Releases | CommentsThis general floor monitoring system from Masimo proven to help clinicians reduce rescue activations, ICU transfers, and ICU days1, Patient SafetyNet is taking enhanced and automated care to a new level with expanded capabilities. According to the company, features include: Halo Index™ for global trending and assessment of physiological parameter trends.
LISTED UNDER: Remote Monitoring SystemsEarlier Bleeding Indifier
September 23, 2010 12:34 pm | Masimo Corp | Product Releases | CommentsMassimo's Radical-7 is a 3-in-1 (bedside, handheld, transport) Pulse CO-Oximeter™ that features Masimo noninvasive and continuous total hemoglobin (SpHb®). It helps clinicians to quickly detect chronic or acute anemia, to identify occult bleeding earlier and to manage blood transfusions more effectively.
LISTED UNDER: Blood Gas MonitorsFlexiPort® Disposable Cuffs
September 21, 2010 7:20 am | Welch Allyn | Product Releases | CommentsWelch Allyn has teamed with Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System to standardize their facilities with FlexiPort® blood pressure cuffs, a single-patient disposable cuff that travels with the patient throughout their stay. In doing so, the system, which includes the Seattle and American Lake Divisions and all community-based outpatient clinics, will help reduce the risk of spreading infectious disease and decrease their overall costs.
LISTED UNDER: BP CuffsHydrogen Peroxide Monitors
September 20, 2010 2:09 pm | Kem Medical Products Corp. | Product Releases | CommentsDocument "proof of compliance" with OSHA's 1.0 ppm 8 hour PEL for personal exposure to hydrogen peroxide. The Kem Medical Product's #8560 Hydrogen Peroxide Monitor is a lightweight badge that is validated for accuracy. Includes pre-paid mailer, prompt laboratory analysis and report, phone notification of high results and technical support to help you provide a safe work environment for your employees.
LISTED UNDER: MonitorsRainbow SET® Radical-7®
September 16, 2010 11:20 am | Masimo Corp | Product Releases | CommentsThe Radical-7 is a 3-in-1 (bedside, handheld, transport) Pulse CO-OximeterTM that features Masimo noninvasive and continuous total hemoglobin (SpHb®). It helps clinicians to quickly detect chronic or acute anemia, to identify occult bleeding earlier, and to manage blood transfusions more effectively.
LISTED UNDER: Blood Gas MonitorsPatient Monitors Integrated With Brain Activity Software
August 6, 2010 7:24 am | Covidien | Product Releases | CommentsCovidien (NYSE: COV) announces the integration of its Nellcor™ BIS™ X4 brain monitoring software into the Mindray BeneView Series of multi-parameter patient monitors. BIS X4 technology monitors both hemispheres of a patient’s brain simultaneously and in real time, providing highly sophisticated data to help physicians make optimal decisions for safe patient care.
LISTED UNDER: MonitorsBrainstorm: Temperature Monitoring
July 19, 2010 7:55 am | Deroyal | Articles | CommentsMaintaining adequate surgical patient temperature is imperative to a positive outcome. Here, Craig Fernandes, Director of Acute Care Marketing for DeRoyal discusses the importance of temperature monitoring in both pre- and post- surgical procedure areas. July 19, 2010 Temperature monitoring has become a required standard both pre- and post-procedure from a patient safety and a reimbursement perspective.
LISTED UNDER: Temperature MonitorsPreventing Perioperative Hypothermia
July 9, 2010 8:03 am | by Tom Parafinik, Director of Sales, Enthermics Medical Systems, Inc., www.enthermics.com | Enthermics Medical Systems | Articles | CommentsPatients have several strikes against them from the start in the surgical environment. In surgery they are naked, anesthetized, in a cold room and perhaps receiving cold IV and/or irrigation fluids. All of these factors can lead to inadvertent perioperative hypothermia. (Hypothermia defined as a core temperature below 36 degrees C or 96.
LISTED UNDER: Temperature Monitors
