Issaquah, Wash.-based Spacelabs Healthcare has announced the release of its Ultraview DM3 dual-mode vital signs monitor, which recently received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, according to a Spacelabs news release.
Anesthesia
Twenty-five surgical societies, representing more than 240,000 surgeons and anesthesiologists, sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, urging Congress to enact Medicare physician payment reform to stop scheduled payment cuts to physicians, according to a news release from the…
Douglas Mayers, MD, has been appointed chief of the Institute of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at Hillcrest Hospital in Mayfield Heights, Ohio, according to a report by the Cleveland Sun News.
A Clark County (Nev.) District Court jury order Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, which manufactures propofol injections, and Baxter Healthcare, which distributed the drug, to pay a combined $500 million in punitive damages to Henry Chanin and his wife, after Mr. Chanin…
A post-hoc analysis of a Phase 3 safety study demonstrated that tapentadol tablets were associated with a lower incidence of nausea, vomiting and constipation when compared to oxycodone immediate release tablets in elderly patients with moderate to severe low-back or…
Vanderbilt University Medical Center has launched an application for mobile devices that allows anesthesiologists and other clinicians to monitor patients, check vital signs, communicate with other providers and peer into operating rooms during surgeries all from the convenience of their…
The American Pain Society honored the recipients of its fourth annual Clinical Centers of Excellence in Pain Management Awards recognizing six of nation's outstanding pain care centers.
A study from the University of Munich, using quantitative sensory testing to identify changes in pain sensitivity, found that pain thresholds increased by up to 50 percent in healthy volunteers undergoing acupuncture to the left leg, according to a news…
Ethicon Endo-Surgery, a Johnson & Johnson company, announced that the SEDASYS System, the first computer-assisted personalized sedation system, was granted a CE Mark for the European Union for routine colonoscopy and screening of the upper gastrointestinal tract and was granted…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration sent a letter to Baxter Healthcare Corp. on April 30 ordering the company to recall and destroy all of its Colleague Volumetric Infusion Pumps currently in use in the United States, resulting from a…
