HARTFORD, Conn., Sept. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- New medical marvels that promise to save millions of lives, an update on implantable defibrillators, and a discussion about the ethics of medical testing in poor nations are part of MEDi 2005, New England's largest medical device trade show at the Connecticut Convention Center, Oct. 25-26, Hartford.
MEDi 2005 (http://www.medi2005.com), organized by BEACON (http://www.beaconalliance.org), the voice of the medical device industry in Connecticut, is expected to attract an estimated 3,000 industry professionals and over 250 manufacturers and suppliers displaying the latest in medical device technology.
New Medical Devices Save Lives * Cooling Vest -- Liquid cooling garment technology for surgical teams allows them to work comfortably in warmer operating room temperatures -- the result of a cooperative effort to translate advanced aerospace technology to the medical arena. (Mountain Laurel Biomedical, Avon, Conn., jaymcisaac@comcast.net and http://www.harthosp.org). * MRI's That See More Clearly -- IBM's Engineering & Technology Services will exhibit new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology used by the Mayo Clinic to accurately diagnose injuries and diseases affecting wrists, forearms, elbows, hands, and fingers without invasive arthroscopic diagnostic procedures. (ttomaka@us.ibm.com) Conference Speakers Discuss the Latest Advances
MEDi 2005 will also include lively conference sessions on a variety of topics including:
* Should People in Poor Nations be Used to Evaluate Medical Devices and Drugs? -- Dr. Arthur Caplan, University of Pennsylvania (Tues., Oct. 25, 11:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.). * Co-keynote address by Dr. Morton Mower, inventor of the implantable defibrillator now implanted in well over 300,000 people, including Vice President Dick Cheney (Wed., Oct. 26, 9 - 9:45 a.m.). * Cutting with Radiological Beam -- St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center's Dr. Richard Shumway's "CyberKnife" is an engineer's and a medical physicist's design dream. The presentation is Oct. 26 from 10 - 11:30 a.m. (rshumway@stfranciscare.org).
Conference hours are 8:30 a.m. - 6 p.m.; the exhibit hall is open 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Registration is $295 for the full conference; $50 for access to the exhibits only. (For more information: http://www.medi2005.com).
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