VIDEO: COVID Survivor on ECMO in Hospital 152 Days Reunited With Clinicians Who Saved Her
Photo-realistic CT image 3-D rendering new from Philips Healthcare
Crushing Prasugrel Tablets Does Not Help STEMI Patients
Use of general vs local anesthesia in TAVR
Pre-emptive Treatment of Vulnerable Plaques With Bioresorbable Stents
Use of MitraClip as a Bridge to Heart Transplant
Use of Sonic waves to break up calcified coronary vessels
VIDEO: Radial Access Lounge Walk Through at Morristown Medical Center
Atlantic Health System’s Morristown Medical Center has opened one of the region’s first radial lounges in its Gagnon Cardiovascular Institute. Radial access lounges are specifically designed to meet the needs of cardiac catheterization patients who have had their procedure performed through a catheter inserted into their radial artery in the wrist, also known as transradial catheterization.
Read more about this lounge - https://www.dicardiology.com/content/atlantic-health-morristown-medical-center-opens-radial-lounge-post-procedure-recovery
Image processing algorithms and processing power has improved immensely over the past decade in echocardiography. Here is a quick example of the image quality improvement between conventional echo and the Canon Medical Systems USA Aplio i900 premium echo system on display on the virtual trade show floor of the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) 2020 virtual meetingthis week. This short video clip also shows how Canon has helped automate tedious measurements and longitudinal strain.
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VIDEO: Cardiac CT Motion Correction Software GE SnapShot Freeze 2
Motion correction on cardiac CT can be challenging, but vendors have developed software solutions to help reconstruct images to filter out motion artifacts, especially at higher heart rates. This video clip shows examples of GE Healthcare's SnapShot Freeze 2 motion correction software. It was highlighted in its virtual booth at the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) virtual meeting this past week. The software is automated to aid in whole heart motion correction.
Read about other advances in cardiac CT — https://www.dicardiology.com/article/new-technologies-take-cardiac-ct-next-level
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VIDEO: Example of intelligent software to automate cardiac CT and MRI reporting
Here is an example of the cardiovascular diagnostic imaging workflow and reporting software from the vendor Cohesic at the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) 2020 virtual meeting. The clinical decision intelligence company demostrated its cardioDI platform that helps semi-automated creation of a coronary tree that can be quickly modified and lesions inserted, and it will auto populate the resulting report to speed turn around time. The software supports cardiac MRI and CT workflows.
Find more information at https://cohesic.com/
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This is a quick video showing deployment of the Edwards Lifesciences Sapien 3 Ultra TAVR valve. It is a demo in the virtual trade show section of the SCAI 2020 virtual meeting. Most vendors have posted a short video showing their newest product.
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Quick overview of clinical data on the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) as it related to cardiology.
It offers a brief overview on how the virus works, death rates by comorbities (with cardiovascular disease being the most lethal), lessons from the frontlines on coronavirus, and what to watch to determine if patient care should be escalated. This video was created by Jay Mohan, D.O., RPVI, interventional cardiology fellow at William Beaumont Hospital (Royal Oak).
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This is a quick overview of clinical data on the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). It offers a brief overview on how the virus works, death rates by comorbities (with cardiovascular disease being the most lethal), lessons from the frontlines on coronavirus, and what to watch to determine if patient care should be escalated. This video was created by Jay Mohan, D.O., RPVI, interventional cardiology fellow at William Beaumont Hospital (Royal Oak).
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This is a simulator to train interventional operators how to set up and place an Abiomed Impella percutaneous ventricular assist pump. Abiomed has the simulator in its training facility at its corporate headquarters in Danvers, Massachusetts, just north of Boston. It allows users to implant the catheter-based pump in the pumping heart, which allows for realistic hemodynamic data on the Impella console.
This is a walk through of a Tufts Medical Center preclinical research cath lab/OR. It is equipped with a GE OEC mobile C-arm that can be moved between three preclinical lab rooms. It also has anesthesia, hemodynamic monitoring, FFR, an Impella console, A1C point of care testing, and an adjoining supply and sterilization room.
This is an example of artificial intelligence (AI) working in the background of PACS to speed imaging workflow, demonstrated at the 2019 Radiological Society Of North America (RSNA) this week. This is TeraRecon’s MRI analysis AI-based software, which automates the contouring and quantification process, taking the 20 manual process down to about 5 seconds. The imager can modify any of the AI created couture or measurements before submitting the final report.
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This is the LVivo auto ejection fraction app that uses artificial intelligence (AI) from the vendor Dia, displayed at the Radiological Society Of North America (RSNA) 2019 this week. The user opens the app in a couple seconds the AI defines to myocardial border and calculates EF for the LV. It is shown here integrated into the GE Healthcare VScan point of care ultrasound system (POCUS).
The company also partners with Konica-Minolta to supply auto EF on its cardio PACS.
Read more about the system from an ASE 2019 study - https://www.dicardiology.com/content/lvivo-ef-comparable-mri-contrast-echo-assessing-ejection-fraction
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Example of fetal cardiac blood flow visualized using the GE Healthcare’s Radiant Flow software on the Voluson E10 ultrasound system. This was demonstrated on the expo floor at the 2019 Radiological Society Of North America (RSNA) meeting this week.
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This is an example of a new intervention cardiology training tool in the Cardio Ex cath lab training app demonstrated at TCT 2019. The mobile device app families percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI) to practice cases in this simulated cath lab environment.
Philips Healthcare just partnered with the vendor To offer trading for its intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) and Instant Wave-Free Ratio (iFR) technologies - https://www.dicardiology.com/content/ivus-and-ifr-video-game-app-training-offered-philips-and-level-ex
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This is the main illustration video from the HeartFlow booth at TCT2019 last week showing how its noninvasive FFR-CT technology works.
The CT dataset needs to be sent to the company supercomputers in California to apply complex fluid dynamics algorithms to calculate flow through the vessels. In 4 hours or less the post-processed dataset is sent back to the hospital for review and shows the 3D coronary tree shown here. It color codes the vessel flow to show areas of ischemia.
Users can move a marker along any vessel segment to show how the FFR numbers change, which can help with planning PCI.
HeartFlow Just Gained FDA Clearance for the HeartFlow Planner Software where users can alter the blood flow by seeing what the FFR change is if the vessel were fully open, a sort of virtual stent simulation - https://www.dicardiology.com/product/heartflow-announces-fda-clearance-heartflow-planner
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This is a walk through of the Maquet CardioSave intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP) system at The 2019 Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) meeting. The balloon uses fiber optics to allow for faster, real-time monitoring. It is designed to start inflation at one end and fill to the other to help push the blood column and augmented the flow from the heart.
Here is a recent trial involving IABPs - https://www.dicardiology.com/article/iabp-shows-reduced-mortality-semper-fi-study
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This is an example of a new intervention cardiology training tool from Philips Healthcare and medical training video game maker Level Ex. It allows use of intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) and Instant Wave-Free Ratio (iFR)technologies in a virtual, simulator environment doctors can access on their mobile devices. These technologies are now integrated into select levels within the Cardio Ex cath lab training app. This was demonstrated at TCT 2019 this past week.
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This is a quick example of how the Shockwave intravascular lithotripsy catheter can shatter calcified plaques in 4 seconds at the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) 2019 meeting this week. It delivers ultrasonic energy waves to the calcium to break it apart, as demonstrated here on hard rings Of gypsum. The energy release can be seen as a spark of light.
The technology has FDA clearance for peripheral vessels and the company is enrolling soon in a IDE trial for use in the coronary arteries.
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