News
ESICM/NACCS Recommendations: Targeted Temperature Control Following TBI
2024 22 May
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a highly prevalent global health issue, causing significant mortality and disability. It results from external forces affecting brain function or structure. TBI involves primary damage from the initial impact, followed by secondary injury processes such as ischaemia, swelling, and metabolic changes, which worsen...Read more
COVID-19 Vaccines Prevented 20 Million Deaths Worldwide
2022 28 Jun
Findings from the first modelling study to quantify the impact of COVID-19 vaccines show that nearly 19.9 million out of a potential 31.4 million deaths were prevented in the first year (December 2020-December 2021) after the introduction of the vaccine. The findings are based on data from 185 countries using COVID-19 death records and total excess...Read more
CDC Interim Guidelines for Fully Vaccinated People
2021 16 Mar
Efforts to end the COVID-19 pandemic finally became possible when, in December 2020, the FDA authorised the use of the first COVID-19 vaccine, manufactured by Pfizer-BioNTech. Soon after, two additional vaccines from Moderna and Johnson & Johnson also received emergency authorisation for use. As of 8 March 2021, over 31 million people in the U.S. have...Read more
Better Planning of COVID-19 Vaccine Trials
2020 02 Oct
The world is desperate for a reliable vaccine against COVID-19. However, the pressure for such rapid introduction could lead to deployment of a vaccine that may be weakly effective. In order to avoid this from happening, three issues must be considered when planning COVID-19 vaccine trials. These include proof of vaccine efficacy and worthwhile...Read more
Inequities in access to ICU care
2018 07 Nov
ICU care is an expensive healthcare resource as it offers specialised physical space, advanced equipment and the expertise of well-trained healthcare professionals. Due to the type of services offered by an ICU, the department has to operate on limited resources only dedicated for patients who require life-sustaining interventions. Over the...Read more
Industry News
Masimo SET® Pulse Oximetry Accurate Across Black & White Subjects, Even in Low Perfusion
2024 08 Feb
Masimo announced the findings of a retrospective, peer-reviewed study published in the Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing in which Dr. Vikrant Sharma, along with Dr. Steven J. Barker, Dr. William C. Wilson, and colleagues at Masimo performed a focused analysis of previously published data to evaluate the impact of low perfusion on...Read more
Getinge Partners with IFC to Help Increase Access to Medical Equipment Across Africa
2022 07 Apr
Getinge is now joining the International Finance Corporation’s (IFC) initiative to help health care providers in East and West Africa get better access to life-saving equipment. Getting medical equipment into Africa can be challenging. Hence, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) is partnering with medtech suppliers worldwide in an initiative...Read more
Masimo SET® Pulse Oximetry has No Difference in Accuracy with Skin Color
2022 17 Jan
Masimo has announced the findings of an abstract presented last Saturday at the Society for Technology in Anesthesia2022 Annual Meeting, which reviewed retrospective pulse oximetry data and concluded that there was no clinically significant bias based on ethnicity for black and white volunteer subjects monitored with Masimo SET® pulse oximetry and...Read more
Getinge Accelerates Growth and Productivity to Reach New Financial Targets
2021 22 Nov
“ Getinge ’s new financial targets for 2022-2025, an annual organic net sales growth of 4-6% and adjusted EPS growth of above 10% on average throughout the period, is well in line with our strategy and ambitions”, says Mattias Perjos, President & CEO at Getinge. “Our continued organic growth and improved margins will be fueled with bolt on M&A’s for...Read more
Ortho’s VITROS® COVID-19 Antigen Test Capable of Accurate Mass-Scale Testing Achieves CE Mark
2020 26 Oct
Ortho’s new SARS-CoV-2 antigen test offers 98.9% concordance to real-time PCR tests, making it a viable alternative suitable for mass-scale testing Ortho’s new SARS-CoV-2 antigen test is the latest addition to the company’s COVID-19 solutions, which include two CE Marked and FDA EUA COVID-19 antibody tests – Total and IgG Ortho Clinical...Read more
Articles
Green ICU-4Ps: It Is Not An Option To Not Accomplish It
2023 26 May
The critically ill patient should be framed within sustainable medicine. It is crucial to mitigate the causes so that we do not have to adapt to the undesirable effects of the unsustainability of our clinical practice. We propose a simultaneous approach to sustainability in people, products, processes, and our planet. Introduction and Justification...Read more
The Importance of Accurate Glucose Monitoring in Critically Ill Patients
2021 23 Nov
The complexity of glucose testing, the limitations of point-of-care blood glucose monitoring systems and the need for accuracy and reliability to ensure optimised patient outcomes. C ritically ill patients are not found just in intensive care units, but throughout the hospital: emergency departments, post-anaesthesia care units,...Read more
Technology innovations in delivering accurate nutrition
2019 14 Mar
Preventing malnutrition and enforcing nutritional guidelines An overview of the key obstacles for the enforcement of nutritional guidelines and innovative approaches that can be used to overcome these obstacles. Recent studies suggest that nutritional guidelines across the majority of intensive care units (ICUs) are not being implemented...Read more
Improving access to safe anaesthesia
2018 16 Oct
Interview with Jannicke Mellin-Olsen, President, World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists. Jannicke Mellin-Olsen, MD, DPH is Consultant Anaesthesiologist at the Department of Anaesthesia, Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, Bærum Hospital, Norway. She is President of the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists, and...Read more
The Accelerate Pheno™ system in clinical practice: fast and accurate turnaround for critical results
2018 01 Jun
Our clinical experiences of using the Accelerate Pheno™ system have greatly benefited patient care, providing earlier diagnostic certainty. Two complex sepsis cases are discussed, where the impact of rapid identification, with antibiotic sensitivities, of the causative organism from blood cultures is described. At Hampshire Hospitals NHS...Read more
Events
Glucose Meter Accuracy and Capillary Blood Testing In The ICU: Why It Matters
2023 22 Jun
Find Nova Biomedical on Social Media Presenters: Brad S. Karon, M.D., PhD, FACB Associate Professor of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology; Director, Point of Care Testing and Hospital Clinical Labs Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN Naveen Bangia, PhD Director, Medical and Scientific Affairs Nova Biomedical...Read more
Glucose Meter Accuracy and Capillary Blood Testing In The ICU: Why It Matters
2023 08 Jun
Find Nova Biomedical on Social Media Presenters: Brad S. Karon, M.D., PhD, FACB Associate Professor of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology; Director, Point of Care Testing and Hospital Clinical Labs Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN Naveen Bangia, PhD Director, Medical and Scientific Affairs Nova...Read more
ANZICS/ACCCN Annual Scientific Meeting 2022
2022 27 Apr
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