Covidien, formerly Tyco Healthcare, debuted enhancements to its MRidium MRI Infusion System, a nonmagnetic IV infusion pump.
The company's MRidium MRI Infusion System is compatible with magnets up to 3-tesla. It helps shorten distances between the pump and the patients, which lessens the need for tubing-intensive work patterns used to keep traditional IV pumps out of the MRI's magnetic field, according to St. Louis, MO-based Covidien.
Software upgrades to the system include a library of drugs commonly used in the MRI suite, and an integrated dose rate calculator. These features allow users to deliver a bolus in the drug calculator mode, while the pump is running, to deliver drugs in volumes less than 1 mL and administer drugs in volume-over-time mode, important for some cardiac MR stress studies. The system also now includes a wireless remote control that allows the system to be operated from the control room.
The anesthesiology department at Children's Hospital Boston has chosen the MRidium pump for the 16,000 MRI exams it performs annually, Covidien said.
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
August 16, 2007
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