http://blog.physiciansresource.net Physician's Resource Blog Thu, 01 Dec 2011 13:53:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Zoll R Series Defibrillators [caption id="attachment_87" align="aligncenter" width="150" caption="Zoll R-Series ALS Defibrillator"][/caption] Zoll R-Series ALS Defibrillator The first Zoll R Series and the most advanced and sophisticated ALS defibrillator available with networking capabilities and See-Thru CPR. [caption id="attachment_88" align="aligncenter" width="150" caption="Zoll R-Series BLS Defibrillator"][/caption] ZOLL R-Series BLS and R Series Plus Defibrillator The Zoll ... http://blog.physiciansresource.net/defibrillators/zoll-defibrillators-r-series/ Early defibrillation is a critical component in treating cardiac arrest. We offer Zoll cardiac defibrillator products to meet the needs of a full range of trained rescuers, first responders and hospital professionals. In addition to providing the very latest cardiac life support technology, our entire line of Zoll cardiac defibrillator ... http://blog.physiciansresource.net/defibrillators/zoll-defibrillators-m-series/ Zoll AED Pro Defibrillator has an outer housing made from the same material as football helmets - polycarbonate siloxane resin. This durable molding is water resistant to high-pressure water jets and passes a 1.5 meter drop test. The Zoll AED Pro’s LCD screen displays all of the critical information necessary: ... http://blog.physiciansresource.net/defibrillators/zoll-aed-pro-defibrillator/ Zoll automated external defibrillator is a full rescue AED - not just a defibrillator. The AED Plus helps guide the rescuer through the “Chain of Survival”: Early Access Early CPR Early Defibrillation Early Advance Care With ‘Real CPR Help™ ’, the Zoll AED Plus’ audio and visual prompts help the rescuer provide quality CPR. ... http://blog.physiciansresource.net/defibrillators/zoll-aed-plus-defibrillator/ As health care reform rages through our government, a new and interesting approach to medicine is making it's appearance as an alternative to making house calls. Coined by the American Academy of Pediatrics in 1967, medical homes are systems that provide around the clock access to care using a team ... http://blog.physiciansresource.net/medical-research/a-personal-approach-to-care/ The Xience stent, a flexible metal-mesh tube coated with the drug everolimus, has recently been used in it's first real-life trial and according to Dutch cardiologists, it is performing incredibly well. Though the product was approved by the FDA last July, the effectiveness of the new stent in "complex, ... http://blog.physiciansresource.net/medical-equipment/newest-coated-stent-does-well-in-first-test/ Yesterday the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the first pandemic to hit in over forty years. The H1N1 virus, also known as the Swine Flu, has how reached a Phase 6, the highest level, on the WHO's infectious diseases alert. So far, the H1N1 or swine flu pandemic this year ... http://blog.physiciansresource.net/medical-research/swine-flu-pandemic-declared-by-world-health-organization/ According to the World Health Organization, about 1.8 million people die worldwide each year from tuberculosis (TB) and a third of the world's population are infected. In addition, of the 9 million new TB cases annually, about 490,000 are multiple-drug resistant TB or MDR-TB and about 40,000 are extensively drug ... http://blog.physiciansresource.net/medical-research/experimental-drug-works-in-treating-resistant-tuberculosis/ According to the Triangle Business Journal, United Therapeutics Corp. has won U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval to sell the drug Adcirca for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension. Adcirca is a prescription medicine used to treat PAH, a life-threatening disease that constricts the flow of blood through the pulmonary ... http://blog.physiciansresource.net/medical-research/united-therapeutics-approved-for-new-hypertension-drug/ A unique new institute will look for ways to treat rare and neglected diseases and take the first and riskiest steps toward bringing new drugs to market, U.S. health officials said in a recent report. According to Reuters news service, the government has provided support for several years to start ... http://blog.physiciansresource.net/medical-research/new-institute-for-rare-diseases/