Cardiovascular diagnostics
Description
Owing to the speaker's illness, the lecture has been rescheduled from 15 April to 1 May.
Cardiovascular diagnostics and treatment mostly take place in catheterisation rooms. Until now, X-ray diagnostics has been the main source of imaging for this type of treatment.
More and more complex operations are performed via this minimally invasive technology. With this, the demand for, mostly 3D, visualisation during these types of procedures is rising sharply.
Operations are often performed in multidisciplinary teams. Images are then an important means of communication. Lack of good visualisation can be prohibitive and complicate procedures unnecessarily.
In addition, new techniques such as robotics are increasingly being used. These need to be seamlessly integrated to make working during interventional procedures as efficient as possible.
Within Philips Healthcare, several groups are currently working on new methods and products that should lead to complex procedures such as minimally invasive heart valve replacement or the treatment of chronic cardiac arrhythmias by medical specialists being performed as efficiently as possible
This lecture will cover a number of aspects that are important in creating innovative products for this demanding market.
The speaker will show how in recent years, with the help of technological developments, cardiac interventions have been able to evolve from highly invasive surgical procedures to minimally invasive treatment with mostly positive consequences for the patient.
Speaker(s)
drs Jan Vermeulen, Director Business Development & Alliances, Philips Healthcare
Location
Eindhoven
Organiser
Region South
Medical Technology
Name and contact details for information
ing. J. (Koos) Mulder, t: 06 39681065,