Medical Software Availability for Tablet Devices Increases As They Become More Popular

October 10, 2011

Richard Raucci Imagine you’re a busy medical professional. While walking down the corridor of the hospital on your way to surgery, you pull up information on patients you plan to see that day, including their full medical histories and up-to-the-minute vital signs. With the swipe of a finger, you bring to your screen updated and centralized procedure and visit records, then you access a patient’s realtime EKG information and dip into the hospital-wide medical database through a VPN connection to your hospital’s Intranet. The Stereotaxis Odyssey realtime monitoring / recording system allows for a multiple-window view into medical / surgical procedures as they happen. This includes camera views, telemetry information, and xray / MRI displays. An audio link provides for direct interaction, and the entire procedure can be recorded for training purposes. The vendor provided a Windows 7 tablet to show the system in action, and it worked well, over a WiFi connection to the Intranet server that processed the data from various medical devices and live feeds from other vendors at the show.

STOPping-Ventricular Tachycardia with Stereotaxis Ablation: Interview with Electrophysiologist Dr. Zyad Younan

September 28, 2011

Ventricular tachycardia is the most common life-threatening arrhythmia, defined as a series of three or more ventricular contractions occurring at a rate of 100-250 beats per minute. VT may lead to sudden cardiac death and together with ventricular fibrillations result in an estimated 300,000 deaths per year in the United States. While acute therapeutic options include defibrillation and cardioversion, drug regimens and surgical ablation of the problematic cardiac tissue are more permanent options. This latter – cardiac ablation – has just recently become more appealing from the dual perspectives of safety and efficacy.

UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson brings leading-edge arrhythmia therapy to New Brunswick region

December 9, 2010

New Brunswick, NJ – Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJUH) and UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (RWJMS) have completed their installation of the Stereotaxis Remote Magnetic Navigation System, manufactured by Stereotaxis, Inc., to treat complex cardiac arrhythmias. The Stereotaxis System is the only remote magnetic navigation technology currently installed in the central New Jersey region to perform cardiac ablations. Physicians affiliated with RWJUH and UMDNJ-RWJMS use the system to perform both routine and complex ablations in all four chambers of the heart.

Due pazienti operati al cuore da due robot. E' la prima volta in Italia

October 22, 2010

Today for the first time in Italy two patients in two hospitals were treated through two robots controlled remotely via internet. Driving the robots was the cardiologist electrophysiologist Carlo Pappone who, from the Arrhythmia Department of the private Hospital Villa Maria Cecilia in Cotignola (Ravenna), providing instructions to the robots has performed two AF ablations on a patient hospitalized in the Citta 'Studi Hospital in Milano and a on a patient hospitalized in the Hospital in Cotignola.

New robotic lab makes heart procedures safer

July 1, 2010

Sunnybrook's Schulich Heart Centre has opened Toronto's first robotic arrhythmia invasive lab where patients with irregular heartbeats can receive minimally invasive treatment to restore normal heart function. Dr. Eugene Crystal, Head of Arrhythmnia Services is featured in the second edition of, HeartMatters, a Schulich Heart Centre publication providing updates on innovations, clinical services, education and staff activities.