Thoracic medicine has undergone significant advances over the years, and chest drainage has become a crucial tool in the management of various conditions. Pioneers in this field include the British scientist Sir Hugh Owen Thomas (1), who contributed to the development of orthopaedic techniques and whose treatment principles influenced several areas of medicine, including thoracic [...]
Introduction The present review aims to analyze and synthesize the growing scientific evidence supporting the benefits of implementing carbon dioxide (CO2) diffusers in the field of cardiac surgery. Clinical studies, meta-analyses and research papers related to effective deaeration, microemboli reduction and prevention of postoperative infections are examined. The review highlights the advances in diffuser technologies [...]
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) therapy has emerged as a crucial resource in the management of patients with refractory respiratory and cardiac failure (1). However, its implementation entails significant technical and clinical challenges. In this context, continuous training and acquisition of specific skills become imperative to ensure patient safety and optimise clinical outcomes. Advanced clinical simulation, [...]
Lighting is key in any surgery. Our ability for precision and the success of the intervention and the well-being of the patient depends largely on it. However, sometimes the operating room lights are not sufficient and the front lights have clear limitations on certain operations in which work is carried out in depth or in [...]
This week, from 11-14th of November, the 33º National Surgery Congress (CNC 2020) organized by the Spanish Surgeon’s Association, will be held online. This year, the meeting’s motto is “Building the future surgery: Standardization, Research, Innovation, Connectivity and Sustainability”. Following the CNC President Savador Morales-Conde’s own words, "the idea is to create a very attractive [...]
Next Wednesday 10th of June at 7:30pm, in Cardiolink we organize a webinar on the use of cyanoacrylate in the treatment of saphenous and perforating veins. The online session will be led in Spanish by Dr. Salvador Sánchez Coll, from Hospital Ntra. Sra. del Rosario in Madrid. The webinar will start off with a debriefing [...]
Following the first Glubran Interventional Club (GIC) official event, next Tuesday 19th of May at 4pm, Cardiolink with the backing of GEM, organizes the second GIC official event. Due to the current exceptional circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic, this event will be held online as a webinar. The online session, which will be addressed to [...]
Last Monday 4th of May, in Cardiolink we organized a webinar on Laparoscopic Pectopexy in the management of Pelvic Organ Prolapse (POP), in which Dr. Jorge Hidalgo Arroyo (Urology Service, Hospital de Figueres, Girona) was the speaker. The online session started off with an anatomic debriefing and a POP description, and it then focused on [...]
We are pleased to announce that Cardiolink has recently concluded a distribution agreement with Exthera Medical Corporation, a medical device company focused on therapeutic applications to treat drug-resistant and drug-susceptible bloodstream infections in high-risk patient populations, regarding its microbind affinity blood filter Seraph® 100. Seraph 100 is a single use extracorporeal broadspectrum sorbent hemoperfusion device [...]
In Cardiolink, we would like to encourage urologists to take part in the live-webinar with Dr. Joerg Neymeyer (Head of Uro-Gynecology Department in the Medical University Charité, in Berlin), which will take place next Thursday 23rd at 5pm. This webinar organised by Allium, is part of an ongoing series of online clinical sessions in which [...]
Considering the great importance that the transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) has nowadays in the treatment of valvular heart disease, Cardiolink Group has recently reached an agreement with Meril Life Sciences Pvt. Ltd, for the distribution of the transcatheter heart valve MyValTM in Spain. The transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), is a minimally invasive surgical [...]
Last week, on the 5th and 6th of March, a workshop on the laparoscopic approach in POP (Pelvic Organ Prolapse), was organized in Hospital Juan Ramón Jiménez (Huelva, Spain). The workshop was organized by Dr. Vidal Mazo, and it deepened on the surgical laparoscopic technique in which a mesh is inserted in order to sustain [...]
Last week, on the 4th of March, in Cardiolink we collaborated with the laparoscopic pectopexy workshop organized in the Gynecology Service (Dra. Rosa Ostos) of the Hospital de Valme (Sevilla, Spain). Dr. Carlota García-Salmones and Dr. Ignacio Salazar from the same hospital lead the live case, which was attended by some gynaecologist from Hospital de [...]
For the first time in Portugal, a state-of-the-art technique for Patent Foramen Ovale (PFO) closure through vascular stitching which does not require cardiac surgery nor any device implant has been deployed. The new technique was enforced by the Cardiology Service and Haemodynamic Unit in the São João Hospital Center, in Porto. The PFO is a [...]
Last week, during the 19th, 20th and 21st of February, the “8º Curso de Actualización y Formación en Cirugía Colorrectal” took place in Barcelona. The course, which revolved around colorectal surgery, was organized by Hospital de Bellvitge and Hospital Vall d’Hebron. The course was divided into a theoretical part, composed by some lectures, debates and [...]
Last week, during the 19th, 20th and 21st of February, the “VIII Curso Internacional de Cirugía de Incontinencia Urinaria y Suelo Pélvico” took place in Hospital Clínico San Carlos (Madrid, Spain). The course, which revolved around urinary incontinence and pelvic floor, was organized by the Urology Service of the hospital and the Universidad Complutense [...]
Last week, on the 18th and 19th of February, in Cardiolink we collaborated in the “I Curso de Formación en Stent Ureteral Allium”, which was organized by Dr. Benjamín Blasco, Dr. Victoria Capapé and Prof. Jorge Rioja in the Hospital Clínico Universitario Lozano Blesa (Zaragoza, Spain). About 20 urologists attended the course, which started on [...]
Last week, from 13-15th of February the “VIII International Course on Mechanical Circulatory Support” organized by Hospital de Bellvitge, took place in Barcelona. The aim of the course was the dissemination and exchange of the state-of-the-art knowledge of mechanical circulatory support’s indications, management and outcomes. The course stressed on long duration circulatory support devices as [...]
Yesterday 12th of February, in Cardiolink we collaborated with the workshop organized in Hospital Quirón Sagrado Corazón (Sevilla, Spain), regarding haemorrhoid treatment through radio frequency. Dr. J. M. Suárez, from the Coloproctology Unit in that hospital, lead the workshop, in which 5 cases of haemorrhoids were treated with the Rafaelo Procedure®. The Rafaelo Procedure® is [...]
Last week, on the 30th and 31st of January, the “1st Son Espases - Clínic Barcelona Valve Repair Workshop using Subaortic Annuloplastic Devices” took place in Palma de Mallorca (Spain). This comprehensive course on Aortic Valve Repair (AVR), focused on annuloplasty techniques, valve anatomy and echo analysis, and it was aimed at specialists interested in [...]
Last week, the 30th and 31st of January, the XXXV Congreso de Cirugía General, organized by the Sociedad Valenciana de Cirugía, took place in Valencia (Spain). Cardiolink’s team joined this meeting, and we were reachable at a booth, where some of our medical devices such as the 3D-IPST meshes, the catheter for controlled application of [...]
Today and tomorrow, a workshop on Glubran®2 embolization led by Dr. Romaric Loffroy is taking place in the François-Mitterrand University Hospital in Dijon (France). This course has a scientific update, in which the indications for use and the technical aspects of the embolising agent Glubran®2 are described, and a live surgery part, in which some [...]
The first Glubran Interventional Club (GIC) official event took place on the 16th of December in Madrid. This meeting, which was attended by more than 20 interventional radiologists from Spain, focused on the endovascular use of cyanoacrylate glues (liquid embolising agent). The scientific program delved into the current knowledge of cyanoacrylate use in interventional radiology, [...]
The 11 th, 12 th, 18th and 19th of December, the IV Experimental Laparoscopic Surgery Training was held in Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias (HUCA), which was co-led by Dr. Jesús María Fernández Gómez and Dr. Jorge García Rodríguez. Cardiolink collaborated with this training course, by providing some units of The Lap Studio, our portable [...]
Next 14th of January at 3pm, a workshop regarding the TAPP, TEP and LIRA surgical procedures in Inguinal and Supraumbilical Hernia will take place in Clínica Cristo Rey (Jaén, Spain). Dr. Jiménez Armenteros and Dr. Antonio Gómez organise this workshop, in which 6 live surgery cases will be performed. In Cardiolink, we are focused on [...]
For the sixth consecutive year, Catalonia has been a world leader in human transplants and organ donation. From the beginning of 2019 until November, about 1.200 transplants and 458 organ donations have been recorded. According to Jaume Tort, director of Organització Catalana de Trasplantaments (OCATT), an organization rooted in the Catalan Health Care System, this [...]
Since August 2019, the Hospital Parque Vegas Altas (Don Benito, Badajoz), has included on its service portfolio our Radio frequency treatment of haemorrhoids under local anaesthesia, the Rafaelo Procedure®. Haemorrhoids, also known as piles, are lumps that appear inside and around the anus. Its origin is varied and sometimes not well-known, however, they are usually [...]
On the 22nd and 23rd of November, the III Mechanical Circulatory Support Meeting, organized by Clínica Universidad de Navarra, took place in Madrid. This year, the scientific program promoted the health care professional’s training in the management of patients with mechanical circulatory support devices from a multidisciplinary approach, through the moto “Care, Research and Innovation”. [...]
Last week, during the 21st-22nd of November, the 1st Complex Incisional Hernia workshop, organized by Dr. Pera and Dr. Pereira, took place in Hospital del Mar (Barcelona). The guest surgeons who attended the workshop took part in the clinical session, which revolved around incisional hernias (risk factors, complexity criteria, surgical strategy and results, prevention…), and [...]
Lat week, from 20-22th of November, the XX Congreso de la Sociedad Canaria de Cirugía, organized by the Canary Surgeon’s Association, took place in Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain). Cardiolink’s team joined this meeting, and we were reachable at a booth, where some of our surgery medical devices such as the 3D-IPST meshes, [...]
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