AngelMed Guardian System Wins Medical Design Excellence Award
Angel Medical Systems announced that the AngelMed Guardian System has received a 2010 Medical Design Excellence Award. The Guardian is an implantable cardiac monitoring and alerting system that detects rapid ST shifts that may indicate thrombotic coronary occlusions caused by vulnerable plaque ruptures.

The device uses wireless technology to alert patients to seek immediate medical attention.

The Medical Design Excellence Awards competition (www.MDEAwards.com) is organized and presented by Canon Communications LLC (Los Angeles) and is the only awards program that exclusively recognizes contributions and advances in the design of medical products. Entries are evaluated on the basis of their design and engineering features, including innovative use of materials, user-related functions that improve healthcare delivery and change traditional medical attitudes or practices, features that provide enhanced benefits to the patient, and the ability of the product development team to overcome design and engineering challenges so that the product meets its clinical objectives.

A comprehensive review of the entries was performed by an impartial, multidisciplinary panel of third-party jurors with expertise in biomedical engineering, human factors, industrial design, medicine, and diagnostics.

“We are honored that the MDEA judges have recognized AngelMed out of the many excellent companies that were considered,” said Jonathan Harwood, Chief Operating Office for AngelMed. “The AngelMed Guardian is currently in a Phase II clinical trial in 30+ sites around the U.S., with more sites added each month. The Guardian is also commercially available in Brazil, and will soon be available in Europe.”

The 2010 Medical Design Excellence Award winners will be honored at a presentation ceremony on June 9 in New York City’s Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, in conjunction with the Medical Design & Manufacturing East Conference and Exposition, June 8–10. Gold and silver award recipients will be announced at this time.

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Improved Radiation Protection Device to be Unveiled at HRS
Lemer Pax, the manufacturer of the CATHPAX radiation protection cabin, will unveil an improved version of its physician radiation protection device at HRS 2010 in Denver. The CATHPAX is used by electrophysiologists during catheter ablation procedures.

The CATHPAX’s continuous 2mm lead equivalent radiation protection provides full-body protection for the electrophysiologist during ablation. During clinical evaluations, the CATHPAX has demonstrated reduced radiation exposure to the operator’s head by more than 50 times.

The new version of the CATHPAX radiation protection cabin, displayed at booth #2238 at HRS 2010, will provide the same level of radiation protection, but the cabin will have a lighter, more mobile frame and a better field of view for the operator. The improvements are expected to further improve performance of the CATHPAX, which is currently being used in more than 150 labs around the world.