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The 12-lead ECG shown in the Figure was obtained from a 50-year-old man with new-onset chest pain. In view of a negative prior history of coronary disease, what might cardiac catheterization show?
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Ultrasound guidance (USG) for the placement of central venous catheters (CVC) has been recognized as a helpful adjunct in anesthesia and surgical literature since 1984, but has received little notice in the emergency medicine (EM) literature. To clarify the EM role of this emerging technique, Miller and colleagues compared USG to the traditional landmark technique for insertion of CVC in ED patients without obtainable peripheral access.
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Among the many electrocardiographic findings indicative of acute coronary syndromes, the emergency physician must be familiar with the characteristics of the pre-infarction stage of coronary artery disease known as Wellens syndrome.
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One year later: Emergency department response to biological terrorism, part II - smallpox, viral hemorrhagic fevers, tularemia, and botulinum toxins
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Much like the real estate mantra about location, drug-eluting stents grabbed the lions share of attention during the late-September Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics 2002 conference at the Washington Convention Center. While it isnt unusual for medical meetings to have a buzz about them for some new technology or technique, to have one dominate thought and talk to the extent that drug-coated stents did at this years TCT gathering was at least a bit out of the ordinary.
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CardioDynamics (San Diego, California), developer of Impedance Cardiography (ICG) technology and manufacturer of BioZ noninvasive digital cardiac function monitoring systems, said the results of two ICG clinical studies were presented at the late-September annual scientific meeting of the Heart Failure Society of America (HFSA; St. Paul, Minnesota) in Boca Raton, Florida.
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Deals of all sorts, including purchases of companies or subsidiaries, product lines and intellectual property
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Opened this past spring, the Oklahoma Heart Hospital bills itself as all-digital and features the newest paperless and filmless systems and mobile communications. Its developers consider it the most advanced such cardiovascular facility in the state, and perhaps in the entire nation. We feel that were pioneers here, Mike Schroyer, president of the hospital, told Cardiovascular Device Update during a recent visit.
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Collaborations, distribution agreements, marketing partnerships and product development collaborations
