Care teams can face alarm and cognitive overload, with an average of 350 alarms going off per patient per day. But Philips' new telemetry platform streamlines alarm management, delivers data-driven insights and automates clinical tasks—with operational simplicity and networking options.

Pei-Ni Jone, MD, FASE, director, echocardiography laboratory, Lurie Children’s Hospital Heart Center, member of the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) Board, explains how 3D echo is being used to better plan, guide and follow up in congenital cardiac surgery.

The Stereotaxis MAGiC Sweep gained FDA clearance in July and its first commercial use was announced this week.

Jaime Warren, EdD, FACC, vice president of care transformation at MedAxiom, an ACC company, explains what is needed to address staffing shortages created by a 94% increase in cardiac CT volumes over the past 5 years. 

The Symphony Thrombectomy System eliminates tradeoffs between two priorities—leveraging large-bore power and ease of use vs. efficiently reducing clot burden and delivering improved speed. 

The technologies and tools of the cardiac catheterization lab have evolved in recent years, allowing interventionalists to perform procedures with more precision than ever. Angiographic imaging, meanwhile, has remained relatively consistent—but that is all starting to change.

The Varipulse PFA platform, which has already received FDA and CE mark approval, was linked to an adverse event rate of just 0.6%. 

The company describes Vivid Pioneer as its “most advanced, ultra-premium and adaptive cardiovascular ultrasound system yet.” It includes new and improved AI capabilities and a compact design that is still fully functional in tight workspaces.