Atherotech to Exhibit The VAP Test at ADA 2008 Meeting in San Francisco

VAP expanded cholesterol test can help clinicians identify best treatment options for patients at risk of heart disease BIRMINGHAM, Ala., May 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Atherotech, Inc., a cardio-diagnostic company, today announced it will be exhibiting its VAP Cholesterol Test in booth No....

Preliminary Data From Pitt County Memorial Hospital Study Show Benefit of Active Surveillance on Reducing MRSA VAP Rates in Surgical ICU

GREENVILLE, N.C., April 6, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- Pitt County Memorial Hospital (PCMH) today announced preliminary data suggesting a statistically significant reduction in the rate of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in the surgical ...

VAP(R) Cholesterol Test Highlighted in Groundbreaking Book on Longevity

...rld-renowned futurist Ray Kurzweil, identifies the vap advanced lipid profile as one of the future techno...ection and lack of testing. Grossman, who uses the vap Test at his Denver-area practice, said he believes... with an aggressive approach, treatable. The vap (Vertical Auto Profile) Test is manufactured by At...

Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority Releases June Advisory

...reduction strategies (known as bundles) to prevent vap in their patients. As a result of team effort, Roxborough reduced vap in its facility from 12 events in 2004 to two in 2...er 2006 through June 2008 there were zero cases of vap at Roxborough. In July 2008, one case was reported...

Zysolin(TM) Pre-clinical Data Supports Once-a-day Dosing in Humans

...hat the demonstrated superiority over free drug availability will result in higher drug concentrations in lung tissue, enhancing clinical efficacy for vap patients in vivo." About Zysolin(TM) Zysolin(TM) is a Tobramycin compound, encapsulated in AlphaRx's Nano Drug Delivery Platform, intended f...

APIC 2009 'Targeting Zero' Initiative Offers Practical Tools, Evidence-Based Elimination Strategies to Prevent the Deadliest Healthcare-Associated Infections

...entilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), the leading cause of death from HAIs. vap is a type of pneumonia occurring in people being assisted by mechanical ven... 2009 APIC will publish new elimination guides for: vap (ventilator-associated pneumonia) Catheter-associated urinary tract...

Medical Simulation Corporation to Introduce Ventilator Associated Pneumonia Program at International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare

... program to help healthcare providers put a cap on vap DENVER, Jan. 5, /PRNewswire/ -- Medical Simu...fety and quality initiatives. MSC will present the vap program in the IMSH exhibit hall, with opportuniti...rence attendees to participant in simulation-based vap training scenarios using a human-patient simulat...

There's a life-saving medical device sitting on your sink

...every year. Thanks to a proven new clinical approach developed by Tel Aviv University nurses, though, there is a new tool for stopping the onset of vap in hospitals. This new high-tech tool? An ordinary toothbrush. Three Times a Day Keeps Pneumonia Away "Pneumonia is a big problem in hospit...

Mayo Clinic Research Shows U.S. Intensive Care Units' Prevention of Pneumonia in Critically-ill Patients Generally Strong; Identifies Area of Improvement

...The data showed that the Mayo Clinic risk rate for vap in intensive care units (ICU) for trauma patients ...ic is an important one to study because developing vap is a potential risk for all critically-ill patient...ease burden to patients. Understanding the risk of vap in all ICU settings is a step toward that." The ...

Intensive care units' prevention of pneumonia in critically-ill patients generally strong

...The data showed that the Mayo Clinic risk rate for vap in intensive care units (ICU) for trauma patients ...ys of mechanical ventilation. This compares to the vap average of 10.2 per 1,000 days in trauma ICUs part...ic is an important one to study because developing vap is a potential risk for all critically-ill patient...

VAP in Medical Technology

VAP Cholesterol Test Helps Reveal Association Between Adiponectin Levels and Atherosclerosis

...IRMINGHAM, Ala., July 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Using the vap Cholesterol Test from Atherotech, researchers have...expanded cholesterol profiling capabilities of the vap Test plus an adiponectin assay as part of an Intra... IVUS. Lipoprotein subclasses were measured by the vap Test; adiponectin was measured using an immunoassa...

New Data Show Doripenem as Effective as Commonly Used Therapies in Treating Hospital-Acquired Pneumonias

...n patients with Klebsiella pneumoniae were 43% vs. 0%, respectively. In a second large, open-label, randomized, multi-center trial, 531 patients with vap and hospitalized in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) were randomized to receive either a four-hour IV infusion of 500 mg of doripenem every eight hours (...

VAP in Biological Technology

Atherotech to Exhibit the VAP Test at Internal Medicine 2008

VAP expanded cholesterol test can help clinicians identify best treatment options for patients at risk of heart disease BIRMINGHAM, Ala., May 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Atherotech, Inc., a cardio-diagnostic company, today announced it will be exhibiting its VAP Cholesterol Test in booth No. ...

Atherotech VAP Cholesterol Test Meets Updated ADA, ACC Measurement and Treatment Guidelines for High Risk Patients

LDL, Non-HDL and apoB measurement helps physicians guide therapy for cardiometabolic risk patients BIRMINGHAM, Ala., April 22 /PRNewswire/ -- The determination of LDL, non-HDL and apoB are now recognized as valid, accurate and recommended methods of guiding and achieving ...

Atherotech to Exhibit the VAP Test (R) at ACC 2008 Meeting in Chicago

VAP expanded cholesterol test can help clinicians identify best treatment options for patients at risk of heart disease BIRMINGHAM, Ala., March 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Atherotech, Inc., a cardio-diagnostic company, today announced it will be exhibiting its VAP Cholesterol Test(R) in Booth...

Atherotech Taps Canyons Medical Center Director, Lipidologist as Chief Medical Officer

...nd treatments need further research and focus. The vap lipid test has been a powerful tool in our clinic ...etes. Atherotech developed and markets the vap Cholesterol Test, available nationwide, which repo...to just four in the standard cholesterol test. The vap Test has been identified by Forbes.com as one of "...

Atherotech Receives Patent for ApoB Measurement

...RNewswire/ -- Atherotech, Inc., developer of the vap Cholesterol Test, has announced it has received a ...y. The patent recognizes the unique ability of the vap Cholesterol Test to accurately report apoB, the ne...ic test." Atherotech added apoB measurement to its vap Test in 2007 and has since reported more than 1 mi...

VAP(R) Cholesterol Test Now Available at ANY LAB TEST NOW(R)

...st direct to consumers at an affordable price. The vap Cholesterol Test is an expanded cholesterol profil...y given within 24-48 hours. The comprehensive vap Cholesterol Test is based on ultracentrifugation, ...f measuring cholesterol. Through this process, the vap Test gives customers and their doctors comprehensi...

Atherotech to Exhibit its VAP(R) Cholesterol Test at Internal Medicine 2009 in Philadelphia

...) Heart Study recently published in Science , the vap (Vertical Auto Profile) Test is the most accurate cholesterol test available today. The vap Test reports 20 separate components of blood chole...ts apoAI, apoB, and the apoB/apoAI ratio. The vap Test provides physicians and researchers with dire...

Atherotech Unveils New Cardiometabolic Test Panels

... Heart disease and diabetes markers to complement vap advanced cholesterol profile ORLANDO, Fla. an.../PRNewswire/ -- Atherotech, Inc., developer of the vap Cholesterol Test, has announced the addition of ne...les. "We're maximizing the value of our core vap technology with additional cardiometabolic tests,"...

Atherotech to Exhibit the VAP(R) Cholesterol Test at ACC.09 in Orlando

...) Heart Study recently published in Science , the vap (Vertical Auto Profile) Test is the most accurate cholesterol test available today. The vap Test reports 20 separate components of blood chole...h representatives will be available to discuss the vap Cholesterol Test in booth #1263, and blood draws w...

Atherotech Announces Addition of ApoAI Heart Disease, Diabetes Risk Marker to VAP(R) Test

... ApoAI and apoB/apoAI ratio now available with vap Cholesterol Test at no additional cost BIRMIN...tein A (apoAI) to its VAP(R) Cholesterol Test. The vap (Vertical Auto Profile) Test is the only single ch.... With the addition of this new marker, the vap Test now reports apoAI and the apoB/apoAI ratio, i...

VAP in Biological Definition

Ethyl alcohol

... Critical point 514 K (241C, 465.53F) 63 bar Δ fus H 4.9 kJ/mol Δ fus S 31 J/molK Δ vap H 38.56 kJ/mol Solubility Soluble in water Acid-base properties pKa 15.9 pH 7.0 (Neutral) ...