Technology

Dialysis product company NxStage® Medical, Inc. has announced CE Mark approval for new high flow capabilities with the NxStage System One™. With this approval, the Company expects to bring this advancement to customers in countries that recognize the CE Mark approval process later this year.

Direct Flow Medical®, Inc., a transcatheter heart valve innovator focused on improving patient outcomes, has announced it has been awarded two new patents for its clever TAVI system. One in Japan, one in U.S.

Freedom Meditech’s clever lens-fluorescence biomicroscope is a non-invasive ophthalmic diagnostic device that obvates the need for dilation drops and claims greater precision than current standard of care devices.

The FDA clearance of Zoll’s AED Plus® external defibrillator is the first time the company’s Real CPR Help®, proprietary feedback technology has been made available in a fully automatic AED.

Collaborative research performed between the Universities of Edinburgh and Southampton has resulted in a material that combines a plastic scaffold with the potential for stem cell regeneration of bone. It’s hoped the development may result in an expanded ability to repair bone in the most traumatic fracture cases involving bone loss.

Stanmore Implants has received 510(k) clearance from the US FDA to market its Sculptor Robotic Guidance Arm™ for precision implant placement in unicompartmental knee surgery, also known as partial knee resurfacing.

Collaborative venture OJ Bio has developed a biochip that can produce diagnoses within 10 minutes with 100% specificity and no false positives. Combined with smartphone technology this opens the door to global improvements in healthcare provision across a range of diseases that may ultimately include HIV.

In the title of this week’s piece we ask whether patients will ever be specifiying the devices that will be used on them. We rather hope they won’t, but then again a bit more information wouldn’t go amiss. After all, who’s body is it?

GE Global Research says its scientists will soon begin a groundbreaking project designed to transform the way hospitals manage and track their thousands of surgical tools.

The Misonix® BoneScalpel Ultrasonic Bone Cutter has cropped up in a clinical paper, so why wouldn’t the manufacturer point us at the comments, especially when they say the device offers a good solution for head and neck surgeons when harvesting bone.

California’s Direct Flow Medical®, Inc., has gained CE Mark approval for its distinctive transcatheter aortic heart valve with a metal-free frame and low-profile transfemoral delivery system. The system uses a twin-donut effect fillable ring to optimise positioning.

VHS/Betamax/Bluetooth/DVD/Ultrasound/RF? It seems like we’re approaching a technology stand-off in the growing world of renal denervation. Ultrasound advocates claim advantages in reaching the nerves RF can only reach by heating things up a bit too much.

We’re loving the number of really clever devices coming before us at the moment. This really smart device for performing distal radius fracture fixation in a minimally invasive manner is a case in point.

The only FDA approved ureteral access sheath that has two options for placement is now available in the United States. The Flexor® Parallel™ Rapid Release™ Ureteral Access Sheath allows urologists to use a single wire guide that functions as both a working wire and a safety wire.

Vascular device company AngioDynamics has exercised its option to purchase certain assets of Microsulis Medical Ltd. including a leading microwave ablation technology and its worldwide distribution rights.

Diagnostic device company Welch Allyn, has received FDA 510(k) clearance to market its iExaminer™ iPhone compatible image capture system that allows healthcare providers to capture, store, send and retrieve images from the Welch Allyn PanOptic™ Ophthalmoscope using the iPhone® 4 or 4S.