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By Sherrie Conroy, Director of Content
I recently caught up with Ray Briscuso, president & CEO of the Life Sciences Conference Group LLC, the organizer of “AdvaMed 2011: The MedTech Conference.” Briscuso talked about the changes in this year’s program and how AdvaMed is building some grassroots feel into the traditionally executive-level conference, digging deep into topics of interest to design engineers.
SC: What is a major focus for AdvaMed 2011?
RB: You have to have innovation hand-in-hand with safety and quality because innovation that has a safety problem hurts the industry. So you have to do both. We actually have two sessions this year that talk about safety. One is an actual panel and one is a CEO spotlight. It will focus on how important is it to design products that are not only innovative but are safe as well.
We’re trying to make sure that people realize that any one of our members that has a quality problem gives a black eye to the whole industry. We want to highlight how important it is to make sure that what you have is of the highest quality and that patient safety comes first. We want to highlight these topics to make everyone realize that the eyes are on us. Make no mistake. You can’t just say the FDA is overly cautious.
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Boston Scientific Corp has launched the Neuromodulation Learning Institute (NLI), a clinical education program and online resource center for healthcare providers to enhance their knowledge and awareness of spinal cord stimulation (SCS) technology, procedures, and techniques. The device company made the announcement during the annual meeting of the International Spine Intervention Society (ISIS).
NLI offers a broad range of hands-on and Web-based learning tools for healthcare professionals to enhance patient outcomes using Boston Scientific's Precision Plus SCS System. The system uses current delivered to the spinal cord to mask pain signals to the brain.
"The NLI offers in-depth instruction on techniques critical to successful patient outcomes with SCS," says Thomas Simopoulos, MD, director of the Interventional Pain Service at the Arnold Pain Management Center, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and assistant professor of anesthesia at Harvard Medical School. "The new iPhone/iPad app is an excellent tool for training current and prospective pain physicians on spinal cord stimulation."
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Device giant Medtronic has set in motion the first of its kind post-review Web site of a medical product. The company has provided a grant to Yale University to conduct two fully independent, third-party systematic reviews of the safety and effectiveness of its Infuse bone graft, a recombinant bone morphogenic protein-2 (rhBMP-2) product that stimulates bone formation. The device company will provide scientific access to full clinical data.
Medtronic will provide Yale with all available patient-level data on rhBMP-2 from Medtronic-sponsored clinical trials, both published and unpublished, as well as all FDA-filed adverse event reports, for the purpose of executing an independent and comprehensive review of the entire body of evidence. Yale will assemble a panel of experts and will commission two academically recognized, publicly trusted clinical research organizations.
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The USC Center for Body Computing (CBC) has announced that Karten Design is among 17 founding members of the CBC. As a member, Karten Design will support wireless health research and innovation and help to transform new technologies and ideas into viable, user-focused products.
"Healthcare will soon be radically changed by wireless technology, which has the potential to enhance the patient experience and improve healthcare outcomes,” says Leslie A. Saxon, MD, CBC’s executive director. CBC was established late last year as an epicenter of wireless health.
The emerging field of wireless health represents a convergence of Karten Design’s key disciplines and an area where the company offers a great deal of expertise to the CBC. The firm has partnered with medical device and consumer electronics companies for 27 years to commercialize new technology.
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A new ultra-low pressure sensor provides long-term stability, total error band (TEB), accuracy, flexibility, and high burst and working pressures. The TruStability Ultra-Low Pressure Sensors HSC (High Accuracy Silicon Ceramic) Series and SSC (Standard Accuracy Silicon Ceramic) Series from Honeywell, Morristown, NJ, use new proprietary technology that combines three performance factors: high sensitivity with high overpressure and burst pressure. This technology protects the sensor without sacrificing the ability to sense very small changes in pressure, as well as provides high durability amid environmental factors such as temperature and humidity. The sensors minimize system calibration needs, maximize system performance, and help support system uptime by eliminating the need to service or replace the sensor during its application life.
The sensors provide an amplified compensated digital or analog output for reading pressure over the full-scale pressure span in the ultra-low pressure range of ±2.5 to ±40mbar [±1 inH2O to ±30 inH2O], providing support for many medical applications including ventilators, anesthesia machines, spirometers, nebulizers, and hospital room air pressure.
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A new mini-ITX board for is suitable for medical applications that require high-end graphics performance. The Wade-8011 from American Portwell Technology Inc, Fremont, CA, is based on Intel's C206 chip set and Xeon processor E3-1200 series and Core i7/i5/i3 processors. It uses the mini-ITX form factor to provide the smallest server board on the market. It is designed to provide high performance with power efficiency. The boards features include two DIMM support dual channel ECC/UNB or non-ECC DDR3 SDRAM up to 32GB; a dual display via VGA/DVI/HDMI; Intel HD Graphics 3000; and two SATA 3.0 connectors (up to 6 Gb/s) and four SATA 2.0 connectors (up to 3 Gb/s). Other features include RAID 0, 1, 5, 10; one PCIe x16 and one PCIe x1 plus USB 2.0 via SDVO connector (PCI x16 can directly split into two PCIe x8 via riser card without add-on PCIe switch); dual GbE based on PCIe x1 high bandwidth I/O interface; and Intel Active Management Technology (Intel AMT) 7.0.
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Release-to-CAD: The New Milestone Between Engineering & Documenting Products
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 Increasingly, engineering organizations are distinguishing between concept design and detailed design activities. By creating a Release-to-CAD milestone before committing to detailed design, engineers are fostering innovation, lowering product development costs, getting to market faster, and creating higher quality products. In this white paper, Chad Jackson, President of Lifecycle Insights discusses Release-to-CAD and the technological and cultural shifts that enable it.
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Custom molded liquid silicone rubber (LSR) instrument trays from Minnesota Rubber and Plastics, Minneapolis, organize and protect medical devices. The LSR trays make storage and autoclaving simple with easy-to-recognize molded compartments. Tools fit tray contours, cushioning and protecting the devices from damage. Seamless and glove friendly, these stackable LSR trays can be designed to hold families of different size tools. Individual tool compartments can be designed with risers and drainage holes for drying and to provide extra separation and protection for individual tools that are heavy or have sharp edges. The trays also can be molded in a variety of colors for product differentiation as they fit inside standardized or customized metal sterilization trays. Molded of medical-grade silicone, these trays are rated for 10,000 hours continuous exposure to steam autoclave processing.
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Boker's 2011 Washer Catalog
Boker's 2011 Washer Catalog features over 25,000 non-standard flat washer sizes, available with no tooling charges, outside diameters of 0.080" to 5.140" and over 2,000 material options for endless possibilities.
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Precision Manufacturing & Assemblies for Medical Device from Lowell
Unmatched quality manufacturing for orthopaedic implants including spine, trauma, CMF, extremities, and dental. Cardiovascular components include mechanical circulatory support, valve repair and vascular. ISO 9001:2000 and 13485:2003.
www.lowellinc.com
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It's Protogami, a 3-dimensional folding object that showcases the interaction of materials and surface finishes – the newest, interactive design aid from Proto Labs. Broaden your knowledge of surface finishes, materials and design techniques by requesting one today. You'll learn, you'll be endlessly amused, and you just might be inspired to come up with the next big thing. To get yours, register here.
Thomas Division
Thomas provides OEM pump and compressor solutions for medical applications with oil-less technology offerings including WOB-L® and articulated piston, diaphragm, rotary, linear, and liquid pumps.
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2011 Medical Innovation Summit
Join 1000 senior executives, investors, entrepreneurs and clinicians at Cleveland Clinic to discover the future of medicine.
www.ClevelandClinic.org/MedicalInnovationSummit
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