AlertWatch Anesthesia Info System for Actionable Display of Patient Data
During surgery, anesthesiologists and nurse anesthetists have a lot of live parameters to keep an eye on, besides all the pre-op patient information that was gathered earlier. Moreover, all these data are typically presented using charts and numbers, requiring quite a bit of interpretation to make sense of it all. Dr. Kevin Tremper, Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology at University of Michigan, Ann-Arbor had the idea of bringing all this information together into one intuitive interface that would display it in a way that provides a effective understanding of patient status. This idea turned into a spinoff company c...
Source: Medgadget Anesthesiology - February 14, 2014 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Editors Tags: Anesthesiology Critical Care Source Type: news
Hamilton Medical’s MRI Compatible Ventilator Cleared in U.S.
Hamilton Medical out of Bonaduz, Switzerland has been given the green light by the FDA to bring its MR compatible ventilator to the U.S. The HAMILTON-MR1 features a gaussmeter that displays the magnetic field’s shape and strength around itself, helping clinicians to safely position the unit near the MRI scanner. If the device detects a strong magnetic field, it sounds an alarm to get it out of the magnet’s effective range.
The main unit is intended to be located at a magnetic field strength of 500 gauss or less without affecting the imaging of the scanner. Even when not ventilating, the HAMILTON-MR1 always mo...
Source: Medgadget Anesthesiology - February 11, 2014 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Editors Tags: Anesthesiology Cardiology Critical Care Medicine Source Type: news
Automatic Device for Faster and Safer Tracheotomies
A tracheotomy is an emergency procedure applied to somebody with an obstructed airway, where a trained bystander makes an incision in the victim’s neck and inserts a tube to restore ventilation. While a relatively straightforward procedure for those with training and experience, it can have complications, or worse: if nobody around the suffocating victim is trained to perform it in the few seconds before loss of consciousness.
Researchers at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) have designed and patented a more user-friendly solution. Their device easily identifies th...
Source: Medgadget Anesthesiology - January 28, 2014 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Ben Ouyang Tags: Anesthesiology Critical Care Emergency Medicine ENT Military Medicine Surgery Source Type: news
Masimo O3 Regional Cerebral Oximetry Gets Approval in Europe
Masimo received European approval for the O3 regional oximeter that interfaces with the company’s Root patient monitoring system. The system works through the MOC-9 modules that can hold up to two near-infrared spectroscopy sensors, each of which features four LEDs and two detectors. The new offering allows for continuous regional monitoring of both tissue oxygen saturation (rSO2) and arterial blood oxygenation (SpO2) simultaneously with up to four sensors.
The system is intended particularly for cardiac procedures when optimal brain oxygenation and cerebral perfusion have to be maintained.
From the announcement...
Source: Medgadget Anesthesiology - January 24, 2014 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Editors Tags: Anesthesiology Cardiac Surgery Critical Care Source Type: news
ViScope MD Stethoscope with Visual Capabilities from HD Medical
HD Medical, a Sunnyvale, CA firm, recently unveiled its ViScope MD digital stethoscope that works like a traditional stethoscope, but also displays the phonocardiogram of the recorded sounds. Besides helping you hear and visualize the sounds, the ViScope MD also features a murmur indicator that will point out suspect sounds that might be indicators of underlying cardiac conditions.
The device interfaces with PC computers for saving and sharing of recorded auscultations and can support external audio systems for teaching situations and any other time when other would want to listen in on an exam.
Here’s an instruction...
Source: Medgadget Anesthesiology - January 23, 2014 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Editors Tags: Anesthesiology Cardiology Critical Care Emergency Medicine Net News Pediatrics Source Type: news
EarlySense 2.0 Wireless Patient Monitor Now With Advanced Motion Detection, Reporting Capabilities
EarlySense (Waltham, MA) won FDA approval for the new version of its bedside monitoring system that wirelessly detects patients’ heart rate, respiration rate, as well as motion. EarlySense 2.0 now features improved patient monitoring by giving more focus to fall prevention, essentially detecting patient motion and predicting that someone might be trying to get up and about. This is accomplished through the new “Rest Indicator” that can warn clinicians of signature movements before the patient is even able to sit upright.
Additionally, the system is able to keep track of response times by staff to the ala...
Source: Medgadget Anesthesiology - January 10, 2014 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Editors Tags: Anesthesiology Cardiology Critical Care Medicine Surgery Source Type: news
CADD-Solis Epidural Pump Wins Regulatory Approval in US
Smiths Medical received FDA regulatory approval for its CADD-Solis pain management system version 3.0 with Programmed Intermittent Bolus (PIB) and Patient Controlled Analgesics (PCA) delivery. The system is aimed to improve delivery of epidural analgesia during child birth and for post-operative pain management.
The CADD-Solis pump features a large color screen that displays all the relevant information, including the current bolus interval and when the next infusion is schedule for. It records activity and sounds alarms when pre-set parameters are exceeded and works off of task-based software and an embedded therapy-bas...
Source: Medgadget Anesthesiology - January 8, 2014 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Editors Tags: Anesthesiology Ob/Gyn Pain Source Type: news
Clear Guide Brings Easy Needle Guidance to Any Ultrasound System (w/video)
Ultrasound guided needle placement has allowed clinicians to perfect regional anesthesia procedures, needle biopsies, central line placement, and other procedures. Though a variety of techniques are used to track the path of the needle, from mechanical to magnetic, most require specialized probes and needles, the placing of markers, calibration, and a certain amount of pre-procedure setup.
Clear Guide Medical, a Johns Hopkins spinoff, has developed a simple, easy to use needle guidance system that clips to any ultrasound probe and provides immediate guidance without tracking markers or calibration for each run. The imagi...
Source: Medgadget Anesthesiology - December 11, 2013 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Editors Tags: Anesthesiology Cardiac Surgery Cardiology Critical Care Emergency Medicine Ob/Gyn Radiology Urology Source Type: news
eZono Gets European Approval for eZono 4000 Tablet Ultrasound
eZono AG (Jena, Germany) has received CE Mark approval for its eZono 4000 Tablet Ultrasound System with eZGuide, designed specifically for procedural ultrasound needle guidance. The eZGuide freehand navigation technology will help clinicians overcome the current challenge of properly viewing the needle and needle tip in real time, allowing for greater accuracy even when the needle is out of plane. The system doesn’t require the use of special needles nor any additional tracking technologies are being used besides the ultrasound.
The low glare, 12″ multitouch screen and the software below it is designed to be i...
Source: Medgadget Anesthesiology - December 3, 2013 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Nishey Wanchoo Tags: Anesthesiology Cardiology Critical Care Emergency Medicine Radiology Source Type: news
Eyes-On Glasses Help See Veins, Place Needles
Evena Medical (Los Altos, CA) has unveiled its new Eyes-On Glasses System that helps clinicians see vasculature below the skin and deliver needles safely and hopefully on the first try every time. The glasses are based on Epson‘s Moverio technology that, similarly to Google Glass, can display graphics for the wearer to see, but goes further with a pair of forward facing cameras for 3D imaging and illumination to brighten the scene.
Though it uses multi-spectral lighting, we suppose that it’s the infrared and near-infrared frequencies that the cameras are tuned to when looking for vasculature. To help document ...
Source: Medgadget Anesthesiology - November 22, 2013 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Editors Tags: Anesthesiology Cardiology Emergency Medicine Military Medicine Pediatrics Surgery Source Type: news
Nonin’s Investigational iPhone Regional Oximeter and World’s Smallest Regional Oximeter with Bluetooth Smart
Nonin is demonstrating its investigational iPhone regional oximetry (rSO2) device at the MEDICA conference in Dusseldorf. It’s not available for purchase, nor is there a schedule to commercialize it yet, but the device slips over a fourth generation iPhone and when pressed against tissue, will display and record readings on the partner app.
Additionally, the company is also demoing the world’s smallest regional oximeter that can interface with any monitor or mobile device supporting Bluetooth Smart technology. iPads being one of those, at MEDICA Nonin is showing off how the new oximeter works with them.
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Source: Medgadget Anesthesiology - November 21, 2013 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Editors Tags: Anesthesiology Cardiology Critical Care Emergency Medicine in the news... Net News Surgery Source Type: news
Nonin’s Investigational iPhone Reginal Oximeter and World’s Smallest Regional Oximeter with Bluetooth Smart
Nonin is demonstrating its investigational iPhone regional oximetry (rSO2) device at the MEDICA conference in Dusseldorf. It’s not available for purchase, nor is there a schedule to commercialize it yet, but the device slips over a fourth generation iPhone and when pressed against tissue, will display and record readings on the partner app.
Additionally, the company is also demoing the world’s smallest regional oximeter that can interface with any monitor or mobile device supporting Bluetooth Smart technology. iPads being one of those, at MEDICA Nonin is showing off how the new oximeter works with them.
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Source: Medgadget Anesthesiology - November 21, 2013 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Editors Tags: Anesthesiology Cardiology Critical Care Emergency Medicine in the news... Net News Surgery Source Type: news
OrSense NBM 200MP Continuous Noninvasive Hemoglobin Monitor Wins FDA Clearance
OrSense (Petach Tikva, Israel) received FDA clearance to bring the company’s NBM 200MP hemoglobin monitor to the U.S., a system that the company hopes will help detect and prevent anemia in hospitalized patients. The device continuously measures hemoglobin (Hb), peripheral oxygen saturation of Hb (SpO2), and it also has low perfusion oximetry, pulse rate, and plethysmography (contraction of the thumb along to the heartbeat).
Alarms can be set to warn clinicians when oxygen saturation or the pulse rate fall outside of preset limits.
More from OrSense about the company’s technology:
OrSense’s devices are based...
Source: Medgadget Anesthesiology - November 6, 2013 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Editors Tags: Anesthesiology Cardiology Critical Care Emergency Medicine Source Type: news
Nonin Medical Gets FDA Approval for New Finger Pulse Oximeter
Minneapolis, Minnesota-based Nonin Medical received FDA approval for the Nonin Model 3230 Bluetooth Smart finger pulse oximeter.
The Nonin Model 3230 shares its readings with other devices via Bluetooth. It also features Correct Check feature to ensure patients have properly placed the pulse oximeter on their finger, enabling correct readings of oxygen saturation. The device also comes with SmartPoint to automatically determine when a measurement is accurate and ready to be transmitted. The Model 3230 has advanced algorithms to overcome potentially challenging measurement conditions, such as low perfusion, variable skin t...
Source: Medgadget Anesthesiology - October 28, 2013 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Nishey Wanchoo Tags: Anesthesiology Critical Care Emergency Medicine Pediatrics Source Type: news
