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Important news alerts on
Cardiac Echo from around the world brought to you on a
regular basis, as it happens.
This news alert page will be updated
on an ongoing basis as news on cardiac echo evolves and is added to the ICE
website. The most
recent update appears at the top of the page. As this news is sourced
mainly from media throughout the world links to the articles can over time
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Mon 4 Aug 2008
Device gets to heart of matter
Daily
Democrat - Woodland, CA, USA
The device, a transesophageal echo -
or TEE - probe, is inserted into the throat
and down through the esophagus, ending up
just behind the heart. ...
Sierra Leonean hospital gets
ECHO-Cardiology Machine
Afrique en ligne - Angers, France
Hospital statistics show that death rate
resulting from cardiac arrest has
been considerably reduced since the
acquisition. Kamara said the Ministry was
...
PACS Software delivers multi-modality image
management.
ThomasNet Industrial News Room (press
release) - New York, NY, USA
... cardiac and vascular
ultrasound, and intravascular ultrasound.
Imaging can be accomplished for for multiple
clinical areas: cath, echo, nuclear,
CT MR, ...
Renaud mystery solved
Windsor Star - Ontario, Canada
"If they have those symptoms, a fairly
simple test like an ultrasound or an echo
of the heart will pick it up." Glanz said
sudden death caused by HCM is ...
Real-time 3D transesophageal
echo will "revolutionize" diagnostics
...
TheHeart.Org - New York,NY,USA
Since its development, 3D echo has
been used as a research tool, but not
routinely in the clinical setting because of
the time needed to acquire the data ...
Hospital experiencing power outages
St.
John's Telegram - St. John's, Newfoundland
and Labrador, Canada
The cardiac cath lab, cardiac echo
lab and EKG departments have resumed
operations. Hospitals are currently
processing blood work for emergency and
...
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Mon 9 Jun 2008
Siemens' New Ultrasound Platform
Revolutionizes the Paradigm of
...
FOXBusiness - USA
The system automatically derives reference
plane images from the full-volume cardiac
capture dataset and offers automated
full-volume contouring for fast ...
MRI procedure growth slowing to three per
cent per year
Medicexchange - London, UK
The report also covers adoption trends of
new procedures such as echo planar
imaging, MR spectroscopy, cardiac-approved
MRI, functional MRI, ...
Antrim Township staff receives first aid
training
Echo
Pilot - Greencastle, PA, USA
The portable electronic device automatically
diagnoses potentially life-threatening
cardiac arrhythmias. Treatment restores
the heartbeat to an effective ...
Open forum: Women and heart disease
Business Gazette - Gaithersburg, MD, USA
Gwendolyn Britt of Prince George’s County
was known for her efforts to integrate Glen
Echo Park and a train station in
Alabama in the 1960s. ...
Omega hospital invites applications
Udayavani - Bangalore, India
The doctors will be trained in non invasive
cardiac procedures like ECG, ECHO,
TMT, cathlab, CT angiography, cardiac
surgery unit and emergency care in ICCU
...
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Tue, 20 May 2008
FDA Grants Approval to Begin Landmark Cardiac Resynchronization ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco, CA, USA
In addition, there will be a single Echo Core Lab which will
independently confirm patient eligibility criteria. Heart failure, with its
associated ...
Prosolv makes cardiology efficient in many ways
Collingwood Enterprise Bulletin - Collingwood,
Ontario, Canada
The technologist sends the clinical data from each test, including the ECG
waveforms and the ultrasound cardiac images, to the Prosolv
Cardiovascular Image ...
FDA backpedals on warnings in echo-contrast labeling
TheHeart.Org - New York, NY, USA
... bidirectional, or transient right-to-left cardiac shunts,
or hypersensitivity to perflutren. Do not administer Definity by
intra-arterial injection. ...
Elevated risk of stroke and death seen with beta-blocker use after
...
Medicexchange - London, UK
... but we believe that the protocol used in the Dutch
Echocardiographic Cardiac Risk Evaluation Applying Stress Echo
(DECREASE) studies (low-dose, ...
Mon, 12 May 2008
Mayor seeks better response to 911 calls
San Francisco Chronicle -
CA, USA
The analysis examined dispatch logs for about 200000 Code 3 and
Echo calls and found that in 27 percent of the calls, the
first responders arrived later ...
ACC: Tissue Doppler Imaging Predicts Heart Death Risk
MedPage Today - Little
Falls,NJ,USA
Even in the presence of normal echo scans in a community
study, tissue Doppler imaging was more sensitive than standard
Doppler echo in predicting the risk ...
LOYOLA’S NEW HOSPITAL TOWER HOUSES NATURE-INSPIRED PATIENT AREAS
...
Newswise (press release) - USA
It comprises eight new interventional laboratories: four cardiac
catheterization laboratories, and four cardiac
electrophysiology laboratories. ...
Philips aims to help cardiology care providers simplify complex
...
Medicexchange - London,UK
... heart information from real time 3D echo images
for cardiologists and the cath lab. With Philips Live 3D TEE,
clinical cardiologists, cardiac surgeons, ...
McKesson’s Cardiovascular Information System to be Deployed at
...
HealthNEWS. Direct! -
Bangalore,Karnataka,India
... of access for cardiac images and information,
supports hospitals’ medical imaging and reporting capabilities for
cath (including hemodynamics), echo, ...
Month-Long Heart Care Camp Kicked Off At Father Muller
TopNews - Noida,Uttar
Pradesh,India
This camp is intended to provide facilities like ECG, ECHO,
TMT, Coronary Angiogram and Angioplasty at highly subsidized rates
for the benefit of the ...
Dell and Kardia Join Forces to Enhance the Delivery of Kardia Web
...
Business Wire (press release)
- San Francisco,CA,USA
According to Wayne Schellhammer, executive vice president, Kardia
Health Systems, “Millions of baby boomers are coming to an age when
they require cardiac ...
GE's Transformation Of Cardiovascular Ultrasound Continues At ACC
Medical News Today (press
release) - UK
Its stress echo capabilities and raw data DICOM expand the
reach of patient examinations. Furthermore, the console benefits of
a full sized 17-inch LCD ...
Angina Drug Potentially Useful Against Heart Rhythm Disorders
Science Daily (press release)
- USA
Cardiac arrhythmias are electrical malfunctions that throw
the heart out of rhythm, causing many of the 330000 sudden
cardiac deaths each year in the United ...
CV Therapeutics Says Ranolazine Improves
Cardiac Relaxation In
...
RTT News -
Williamsville,NY,USA
The data revealed were from a study that investigated five patients
with LQT3 syndrome with ECG and ECHO evaluation during an
eight-hour intravenous ...
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Mon 14 April
2008
SF's emergency responses fail to meet goal
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
Echo-priority calls require immediate resuscitation, such as cases of
stopped breathing, choking, drowning, severe allergic reaction and
cardiac arrest. ...
Taking stock
Wausau Daily Herald - Wausau, WI, USA
... general cardiology, diagnostic cardiac catheterization,
nuclear cardiology, and echocardiography with special expertise in
transesophageal echo. ...
Echo contrast
agents "safe"; FDA should reconsider warnings
The Heart.Org - New York, NY, USA
... echo, to obtain optimal images. Contrast agents greatly
enhance the quality of the images taken and the doctors' ability to assess
cardiac function, ...
Teenager will go to the Bon Jovi gig
this is hampshire.net - Winchester,
England, UK
We offered to pay for the tickets but he said he wouldn't like that so we
are donating the money to the cardiac unit where Hayley was treated."
Marias Medical Center will be among providers at April 30 health fair
The Valierian - Cut Bank,MT, USA
... 24 Holter Monitors and King of Heart Studies; Cardiac
Stress Testing, ECHO Cardiograms; Emergency Room Coverage; Home
Oxygen Programs and Equipment; ...
St. Jude Medical to Acquire EP MedSystems
Business Wire (press release) - San
Francisco, CA, USA
... and the EP-4™ Computerized Cardiac Stimulator. In
addition, EP Med Systems’ intracardiac echo (ultrasound or ICE)
ultrasound catheter system, ...
Boyd Campbell
DOTmed.com (press release) - New York,
NY, USA
... BP Monitor, Cardiac, Cardiac - Vascular,
Defibrillators, Dental Chair, Dental Ultrasonic Cleaner, Doppler Waveform
Analyzer, ECG unit, Echo Table, EKG, ...
Recently approved angina drug potentially useful against heart
...
Science Centric - Sofia, Sofia Town,
Bulgaria
A recently approved angina drug may also represent a powerful new treatment
for a rare hereditary syndrome that places teens at risk for sudden
cardiac ...
4 OF THE 439 WHO DIED
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
He then assigned the case Echo status, the highest priority for an
emergency call - listing the case as a "suspected cardiac arrest" and
noting that the ...
Mon 31 Mar 2008
YourHealth: Begin the worrying when you start huffing & puffing
New Straits Times -
Persekutuan,Malaysia
One of most important diagnostic tools for heart failure is an
echocardiogram (Echo), which is a painless and non-invasive procedure
using ultrasound that ...
Tennessee Heart Test Is Credited With Saving Lives
New York Times - United States
“If it were my son playing ball, I would like him to have an echo,
even though it is cost inefficient,” Zipes said. NCAA-sanctioned programs
are required to ...
Toshiba to Host Educational Series ``Cardiovascular Workflow Made
...
FOXBusiness - USA
... "New Ultra Low-dose Cardiac CT Applications" Tony DeFrance,
MD 1:30 pm Expo Lunch & Learn: "10-Minute Guide to Echo Speckle
Tracking" Hidekazu Tanaka, ...
York Hospital again achieves echocardiography accreditation
Portsmouth Herald News -
Portsmouth,NH,USA
The ICAEL is a nonprofit organization dedicated to ensuring high quality
patient care in cases regarding all modes of Adult Cardiac
Ultrasound, Adult Echo, ...
Timing is Everything When it Comes to Defibrillation
Nurse.com - Falls Church,VA,USA
In the cardiac ECHO lab, airway equipment was tucked in a corner that
was easy to access when the room was empty but was hard to reach when an
ECHO was ...
Innovative Concept Of Medical Tourism Booming In India
TravelVideo.tv (press release) - USA
Indian doctors have got an expertise in performing successful cardiac
surgeries, bone marrow transplants, liver transplants, orthopaedic surgeries
and other ...
Ranolazine Shortens QT Interval and Improves
Cardiac Relaxation in
...
PR Newswire (press release) - New
York,NY,USA
Five patients with LQT3 syndrome were prospectively investigated during an
eight
Mon 24 Mar 2008
AIUM Bioeffects Consensus Report
Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine (subscription)
- USA
Although radiation forces associated with ultrasound exposures can stimulate
auditory, 20 , 62 sensory, 19 , 63 – 65 and cardiac 66 tissues, there
have been ...
Utility of detailed preoperative
cardiac testing and incidence of
...
The Journal of Thoracic and
Cardiovascular Surgery -
Objective: Recent literature has questioned the efficacy of routine detailed
preoperative cardiac ischemia testing and preoperative cardiac
intervention ...
The Transformational Role of Hand-Carried Ultrasound
Express Healthcare Management -
Mumbai, India
Point of care ultrasound systems enable the evaluation of cardiac
anatomy and functionality on the spot allowing the physician faster, more
confident ...
NY: Heart Problems Caused Shay's Death
The Associated Press -
Cardiac echo tests and electrocardiograms can help evaluate whether
the heart is healthy or not, said Zipes, a distinguished professor at the
Indiana ...
Mon 17 Mar 2008
Echo Therapeutics Announces Positive Results from Symphony(TM
...
PR Newswire (press release) - New
York,NY,USA
The study was performed at Tufts and enrolled twenty-five (25) adult
patients scheduled for elective cardiac surgery. ...
Ghana: 12 Kids Receive Free
Cardiac
Surgery
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
... has donated medical equipment, including two echo
machines, for the valuation of heart defects, at a cost of $500000, eight
new cardiac monitors and two ...
Former WCMH surgeons under fire
Monticello Herald Journal -
Monticello,IN,USA
"Having had two cardiac arrests and being septic when he came in, the
odds of survival were pretty close to nil." Hassan's sentiments were an
echo of ...
Frost & Sullivan Lauds Terason for Innovative Ultrasound Systems
Newswire Today (press release) -
London,UK
Combined with back end PC signal processing, the advancement has enabled
real-time Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (CRT) tools on a portable
handheld ...
GE Healthcare Grows #1 Market Leadership Position in Global
...
Business Wire (press release) - San
Francisco,CA,USA
After the success of the stress echo imaging feature introduced on
the Vivid i in 2006, GE engineers migrated the technology into the Vivid e,
...
EP MedSystems Reports 2007 Fourth Quarter and Full-Year Financial
...
StreetInsider.com (subscription) -
Birmingham,MI,USA
The Company's EP product line includes the EP-WorkMate(R) computerized
electrophysiology workstation and the EP-4(TM) Computerized Cardiac
Stimulator, ...
Mon 10 Mar 2008
ACC Issues Appropriateness Criteria for Stress
Echo
Medscape (subscription) - USA
Risk assessment with prior test results — chest pain syndrome or anginal
equivalent, with coronary artery stenosis of unclear significance on
cardiac ...
Heart patient's vote of thanks for nurse
This Is Lancashire -
Blackburn,England,UK
Mother-of-three and grandmother of two Mrs Graves has been a cardiac
nurse for 20 years and her team of three people has 400 patients across East
Lancashire ...
Reports Show Macular Degeneration Sufferers Face Twice the Risk of
...
Press Release 365 (press release) -
Miami,FL,USA
"Based upon this current Australian study, more research will be needed to
determine if taking steps to reduce cardiac risk also reduces macular
...
Heart tests dedicated to tragic Birmingham girl Alison Linforth
BirminghamMail.net - Birmingham,UK
They revealed a cardiologist sent 10 per cent of those tested for a more
detailed echo-cardiogram test. Players from the England under-18
rugby squad were ...
Cardiac Sonographer
Seattle Times - United States
Perform cardiac ultrasound examinations. Provide assistance to the
physicians in the operating room, ICU, and Catheterization lab with trans-esophageal
...
Malls: New temples of modern India
Merinews - New Delhi,India
Dozens of elderly cardiac patients come here for an early morning
walk, safe from the cold. The mall is also, one of the last places left
where you can ...
Mon 18 Feb 2008
Children's Hospital Heart Center Continues to Expand Outreach
...
PR Newswire (press release) - New
York,NY,USA
These echo studies aid in the diagnosis of congenital heart defects.
Johnstown In central Pennsylvania, pediatric cardiology care is part of a
bigger ...
Valentines not the only hearts that need care
DesMoinesRegister.com - Des
Moines,IA,USA
An ECHO test produces a video display of the heart as it is beating,
giving an illustrated view of the function of the heart muscles and valves.
...
GP’s pledge on patient care
Liverpool Echo - UK
This week the ECHO revealed an alleged catalogue of errors which
blighted Dr Vinod Shiralkar’s Twickenham Drive surgery in Leasowe. They
included failure to ...
NovaRad enhances access to study images and reading efficiency
...
Medicexchange - London,UK
Compared to stress single-photon-emission computed tomography (SPECT), does
cardiac MRI (cMRI) provide a better means of diagnostic accuracy in
the ...
Cardiac Stress Tests
Journal and Courier - Lafayette,IN,USA
Are there different types of cardiac stress tests? Yes. There are
several types of stress tests. • A stress echo, combines an
ultrasound of the heart before ...
The heart truth for women
The Courier News - Elgin,IL,USA
Mueller said an echo stress test, which produces images of the heart,
or a nuclear stress test, which uses nuclear dyes injected into the veins,
...
Mon 11 Feb 2008
QualityStocks.net "Top Movers and Shakers" for 2/6/2008
TransWorldNews (press release) -
Monroe,GA,USA
In addition to ATPace(TM) (adenosine triphosphate injection) for the
treatment and diagnosis of certain cardiac arrhythmias. EnterConnect
Inc. (ECNI) closed ...
Dr Moopen's Group to invest RO6m in Oman
Khaleej Times - Dubai,United Arab
Emirates
... CT scan, mammography video endoscopy and cardiac echo
cardiography, he said, and added that all the group's establishments in Oman
would be run by a mix ...
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