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Analogic Corporation Launches the LIFEGARD II Family of Non-Invasive Patient Monitors at the ACC in Atlanta, March 11-14.


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: ALOG) today announced the official product launch of the LIFEGARD(R) II family of non-invasive patient monitors at ACC See adaptive cruise control. .06 (American College of Cardiology The American College of Cardiology (ACC) is a nonprofit medical association established in 1949 to educate, research and influence health care public policy. The president for the 2006–2007 year is Steven E. Nissen. [1] The organization has 39 chapters in the U.S. ), March 11-14, 2006, in Atlanta, Georgia (Booth #3432).

The LIFEGARD II, the latest in a series of non-invasive patient monitors from Analogic, is the platform upon which the Company will expand its patient monitoring offerings. LIFEGARD II with ICG ICG

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 (Impedance CardioGraphy) uses Thoracic Electrical Bioimpedance (TEB) to measure continuous cardiac output, and is the only patient monitor that has ICG totally integrated with all other standard, non-invasive vital signs.

Non-invasive hemodynamic he·mo·dy·nam·ics  
n. (used with a sing. verb)
The study of the forces involved in the circulation of blood.



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 measurement is a valuable, established tool in managing cardiac patients, and the LIFEGARD II with ICG is the most comprehensive non-invasive cardiac output monitor available today.

Dan Webster, General Manager of Analogic's Life Care Systems Division, noted, "The LIFEGARD II family represents a significant expansion of our growing LIFEGARD family of patient monitors. The non-invasive, portable LIFEGARD II with ICG adds a new level of versatility to patient monitoring by allowing clinicians to more comprehensively monitor patient hemodynamics hemodynamics /he·mo·dy·nam·ics/ (-di-nam´iks) the study of the movements of blood and of the forces concerned.hemodynam´ic

he·mo·dy·nam·ics
n.
 anywhere in the hospital or in non-acute environments such as freestanding clinics and physicians' offices. Clinicians can evaluate a patient in considerably less time and with no risk of infection, compared to conventional invasive monitoring modalities."

Analogic's LIFEGARD family of non-invasive patient monitors also includes LIFEGARD, a general-purpose monitor that measures ECG, heart rate, respiration, pulse oximetry, non-invasive blood pressure, and temperature; LIFEGARD ICG, a non-invasive hemodynamic status monitor; and the FETALGARD Lite(R) and FETALGARD Lite with NIBP, antepartum antepartum /an·te·par·tum/ (-pahr´tum) occurring before parturition, or childbirth, with reference to the mother.

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adj.
Of or occurring in the period before childbirth.
 fetal monitors capable of monitoring twins. LIFEGARD II multiparameter monitors can also measure end-tidal CO2, in addition to ICG and the five standard vital sign parameters. Additional models with expanded capabilities which have already received U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) clearance will be made available over the next 12 months. For more information, visit Booth #3432 at ACC in Atlanta, go to www.analogic.com/lifegard, or call 800-599-7769.

Analogic Corporation is a leading designer and manufacturer of advanced health and security systems and subsystems sold primarily to Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs). The Company is recognized worldwide for advancing the state of the art in Computed Tomography (CT), Digital Radiography (DR), Ultrasound, Magnetic Resonance Imaging magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), noninvasive diagnostic technique that uses nuclear magnetic resonance to produce cross-sectional images of organs and other internal body structures.  (MRI), Patient Monitoring, and Embedded Multiprocessing.
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