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Kidney Patients Honor Top Physician for Disease and Infection Prevention

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星期一, 四月 15, 2024
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WASHINGTON, April 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Association of Kidney Patients (AAKP), America's oldest and largest independent kidney patient advocacy organization, awarded its 2024 Medal of Excellence Award in the Physician Category to Dr. Barry Smith, PhD, MD, President of New York-based Dreyfus Health Policy and Research Center. The AAKP announcement occurred during the 50th Anniversary Meeting of the Renal Physicians Association (RPA) in Baltimore, Maryland. 

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  • The RPA is a long-standing ally of the AAKP and is the professional organization of nephrologists whose goal is to ensure quality care under the highest standards of medical practice for patients with kidney disease and related disorders.
  • Dr. Smith was selected as a Physician Honoree based on his distinguished career spanning academia, government, and clinical care management and his dedicated efforts to expand patient engagement in infection prevention and medical innovation.
  • Dr. Smith is highly regarded for his focus on disease prevention through better community education on issues including food choices and nutrition as well infection prevention through improved safety measures and access to new safety innovations.
  • The Medal of Excellence includes award categories in transplant surgery, transplant professional, physician, nursing, dietitian, social work, and dialysis technician.

New Data Shows Advantages of Rapid Medical’s COMANECI™ Embolization Assist Device

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星期三, 七月 19, 2023
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Rapid Medical ™, a leading developer of advanced neurovascular devices, today announced new clinical data showing significant advantages of its novel COMANECI™ embolization assist device over established techniques to treat ruptured wide-neck intracranial aneurysms.

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  • Rapid Medical ™, a leading developer of advanced neurovascular devices, today announced new clinical data showing significant advantages of its novel COMANECI™ embolization assist device over established techniques to treat ruptured wide-neck intracranial aneurysms.
  • “The COMANECI device is a highly useful adjunct tool for patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage.
  • It has been used in over 12,000 procedures worldwide in wide-neck aneurysm treatments–and in Europe only–to open arteries constricted by vasospasm.
  • However, COMANECI-assisted coiling showed significantly lower thromboembolic and aneurysmal complication rates and periprocedural complications–than both SAC and BAC.

Mainstay Medical Announces Publication of Post-Market Clinical Trial Data from Ongoing ReActiv8®-C Study in Chronic Low Back Pain Patients

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星期二, 十一月 22, 2022
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Mainstay Medical Holdings plc today announced the publication of data from a single center, real-world study with one-year clinical follow-up of patients selected from the ReActiv8-C study.

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  • Mainstay Medical Holdings plc today announced the publication of data from a single center, real-world study with one-year clinical follow-up of patients selected from the ReActiv8-C study.
  • Patients implanted with ReActiv8 at Klinikum Itzehoe were consecutively included into this cohort if they presented with back pain 6 and no prior lumbar surgery.
  • I am excited to continue offering restorative neurostimulation with ReActiv8 for my patients with multifidus dysfunction resulting in chronic axial low back pain.
  • ReActiv8 is an implantable medical device designed to treat adults with intractable chronic low back pain (CLBP) associated with multifidus muscle dysfunction.

Philips expands rollout of its ClarifEye augmented reality surgical navigation solution to Japan

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星期四, 十月 13, 2022
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Philips augmented reality surgical navigation solution - ClarifEye - combines 2D and 3D visualizations at low X-ray dose with 3D AR navigation into one system.

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  • Philips augmented reality surgical navigation solution - ClarifEye - combines 2D and 3D visualizations at low X-ray dose with 3D AR navigation into one system.
  • Compared to existing navigation systems, ClarifEye has no reference frame-related errors, and its wonderful that it achieves real time imaging with pedicle segmentation.
  • [4] Elmi-Terander A at el, Augmented reality navigation with intraoperative 3D imaging vs fluoroscopy-assisted free-hand surgery for spine fixation surgery, a matched-control study, Nature Sci.
  • accuracy results from a multicenter, prospective clinical study using a skin markerbased optical navigation system, European Spine Journal, Sept 2022.

Rapid Medical Marks First Procedures with Numen™ Coil from MicroPort Scientific

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星期二, 六月 28, 2022
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Rapid Medical , a leading developer of advanced neurovascular devices, announces the expansion of its portfolio in the United States and the first Numen coil embolization procedure.

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  • Rapid Medical , a leading developer of advanced neurovascular devices, announces the expansion of its portfolio in the United States and the first Numen coil embolization procedure.
  • Rapid Medical now has an exclusive distribution agreement with MicroPort NeuroTech, a subsidiary of MicroPort Scientific Corporation.
  • The Numen Coil Embolization System showed excellent results in a 350-patient, prospective head-to-head study against one of the market-leading coils1.
  • We are excited to expand our portfolio for treating brain aneurysms with the addition of the Numen Coil Embolization System, comments James Romero, President, Americas of Rapid Medical.

iCAD Announces Additional Patients Treated Under GLIOX Trial and Continued Global Momentum for Xoft Intraoperative Radiation Therapy (IORT) for Brain, Rectal, Head and Neck Tumor Treatment

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星期二, 四月 5, 2022
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We have used the Xoft System for the treatment of multiple types of tumors at our facility, including breast, skin, gynecological, and now brain tumors.

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  • We have used the Xoft System for the treatment of multiple types of tumors at our facility, including breast, skin, gynecological, and now brain tumors.
  • Radionecrosis refers to the breakdown of normal body tissue near the original tumor site after radiation therapy.
  • We are encouraged by the momentum Xoft IORT continues to gain as an efficacious treatment for multiple cancers worldwide, added Stevens.
  • Headquartered in Nashua, NH, iCAD is a global medical technology leader providing innovative cancer detection and therapy solutions.

Philips expands Augmented Reality Surgical Navigation – ClarifEye – to two new international sites with successful clinical outcomes

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星期三, 十二月 1, 2021
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Using the Philips spine solution, pedicle screws were successfully placed at four spine levels to fuse several lumbar vertebras.

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  • Using the Philips spine solution, pedicle screws were successfully placed at four spine levels to fuse several lumbar vertebras.
  • ClarifEye Augmented Reality Surgical Navigation was introduced earlier this year .
  • Philips is a pioneer in Hybrid OR solutions and innovating surgical navigation technology, which helps surgeons perform image-guided, open and minimally invasive spine surgery.
  • [3] Elmi-Terander at el, Augmented reality navigation with intraoperative 3D imaging vs fluoroscopy-assisted free-hand surgery for spine fixation surgery, a matched-control study, Nature Sci.