Newsworthy Articles from IndostarCom circa 2011

IVC Filter Use: What’s Next?
July, 2011 | Edited Interview with **Dr. Matthew Johnson

Many of thousands of people in the United States suffer from venous thromboembolic disease (VTD) each year. The majority of VTD patients can be treated appropriately with anticoagulation. However, there are some who cannot take an anticoagulate therapy. They patients are recommended to have an IVC filter. The first IVC filters were considered to be placed within the patient on a permanent basis. However in order to reduce the potential risk for DVT and other less frequent complications, such as IVC thrombosis spurred the development of retrievable IVC filters. The first design of a potentially retrievable filters was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2002. Although all of the IVC filters that are available today in the US today are approved by the FDA for permanent placement, the majority of the filter designs are retrievable. It has been recognized since the introduction of retrievable filters that design modifications that were necessary due to some unexpected complications that arose in some patients.

However, my decision-making process as a surgeon has not changed. I always evaluate the indication for filter placement at the time of its request. If the indications are not clear, I discuss the case with the referring physician. If there is not a clear indication, I do not place the filter.

I think all surgeons or technicians who implant IVC filters need to consider several important things.

• Is the indication for filter placement appropriate?
• Do you have a plan for retrieval, or is the device intended to be permanent?
• Do you know, to the best extent possible, the risks and benefits of the device that you are implanting?
• Are you using what you believe to be the best device available?

**Matthew Johnson, MD, FSIR, is Professor of Radiology and Surgery at Indiana University School of Medicine, and Director of Interventional Oncology at Indiana University Health in Indianapolis, Indiana. He is a paid consultant to Boston Scientific Corporation, Cook Medical, CeloNova BioSciences, Inc., Nordion, and Sirtex Medical.

UPDATE:
Four years later:
Even before the above interview with Dr. Matthew Johnson, there were indications there were issues with the designs of several different IVC filters specifically 6 different Bard IVC filters and 2 Cook filters. In 2010, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced a safety alert regarding retrievable IVC filters. Later in 2014 the FDA updated its safety communication recommending retrievable devices be removed between the 29th and 54th day after implantation in patients in which PE subsided. Hundreds of patients have suffered dibilitating complications and even death as a result of the Bard and Cook IVC filters. There are numerous IVC filter injury attorneys representing individuals and families against the manufacturers. If you or a loved one suffered serious complications after being implanted with an IVC filter, you should contact a lawyer who specializes in handling medical device type lawsuits.
Finally in 2015 the first large-scale, multi-specialty research trial to evaluate the safety of IVC filter use, entitled Predicting the Safety and Effectiveness of Inferior Vena Cava Filters (PRESERVE). The goal of the research is to obtain a real-world view of the safety and effectiveness of IVC filters placed in the U.S.

Bloody Day in Iraq against the U.S. Army.UU. and Iraqi police
June 6th, 2011

Baghdad (drafting/agencies).-five U.S. military were killed on Monday in the Centre of Iraq, said the army of United States.

The American release did not give details, but local media reported previously an attack with rockets on a base of United States in Baghdad, as reported by the Reuters news agency.

In another attack happened today in Iraq, at least eleven people were killed today and 19 were injured by the explosion of a car bomb driven by a suicide near a checkpoint of the police and the army in the Centre of Tikrit, North of Baghdad, reported EFE.

Police sources explained that the bomber who drove the explosives-laden vehicle did explode at the entrance of a complex of presidential palaces, in the Centre of the city of Tikrit, capital of Salahedin.

Initially, the sources had reported the deaths of three people in such an attack.

Among the dead is an officer in the army, said the sources, who added that several policemen and soldiers were among the wounded.

The explosion caused numerous damage to several buildings in the area.After the attack, security forces imposed curfew in Tikrit for fear that more attacks occur.

On the other hand, five other people were killed today and 20 were wounded in several attacks in Baghdad, according to the sources explained.

Two members of pro-Government militias tips salvation were killed in an attack with automatic weapons against a checkpoint set up near a Shiite mausoleum in the District of in the Azamiya, in the North of Baghdad.

Other two members of the control were injured in the assault.In the same area, another post of surveillance of the Iraqi army was attacked by a group of armed men.

In this attack a soldier died and another was wounded.The fourth fatality, a militiaman of the Councils of salvation, was also recorded in the same area, in a similar incident against a control point, mounted by these militias who collaborate with the authorities, close to the hospital to the Nuuman.

The source added that a civilian was killed by the explosion of a car bomb which was parked in the Palestinian Street, in the East of the capital.

At least 10 people were injured in the attack and several vehicles were destroyed.

In the area of to the Kasra, in the North of the capital, six policemen were injured by the explosion of a device in the path of her patrol.

That Gloomy Cambodia
June 27th, 2011

The statements of four former leaders of the Khmer Rouge before a court led by the United Nations in the Cambodian capital opens a long process that is responsible for the main perpetrators of the genocide that caused two million deaths from 1975 to 1979, suspended the schools to create a regime of agrarian utopiahe suppressed religion and left in the hands of few the life of the vast majority. One of every four Cambodians were victims of the perverse fantasy imported from the Cultural Revolution of Mao in China.

The four accused, a man and a woman, scratch the eighty years and it is impossible to meet the penalties envisaged in the statement that going for very long and it is going to stir the consciences of Cambodians and those they remember that awful barbarity. In classical literature, from Thucydides to Herodotus, we see that in the exercise of political power, the human race can and wants to return to the animality. It reminds us of Steiner killings have punctuated the millennia with strident normality.

The century XX, of the great progress in all fields of knowledge, has been that more victims of political intolerance has thrown into the fires of the totalitarian ideologies.

Justice has been delayed for political reasons and also to not open more wounds in the turbulent Cambodian society that has not exceeded social tear of a barbarism which led children to denounce their parents creating a totalitarianism which penetrated to the inside of the Consciousnesses. It is a pity that manoeuvres of the United Nations as fears of Cambodian Governments have not concluded before trial. The current Prime Minister was a member of the Khmer Rouge in his youth.

Cinema and literature have told us that can be considered one of the most horrible tragedies that met the past century, a massive massacre allegations, collective famines, murders were discovered with those mass graves of thousands of skulls buried deep within the forest. That gloomy Cambodia reminds US of the value of the dignity of the people. Each time that a human being is hit, killed on hunger, stripped of respect, opens a huge hole in the lives of all.

PC Smart was named the HP TouchSmart 610
May 1st, 2011 | Author: ditaliana

SURABAYA Although some IT vendors competing race turns out Tablet computers instead mengelurkan HP Hewlett Packard Personal Computer PC Gadgets difference is called the HP TouchSmart PC 610 provides a solution for the whole family addition, this PC can dikatakn smart enough to answer the needs of its users. HP TouchSmart Desktop PC 610 is the first smart PC with a monitor capable of up to 60 degrees Reclining ability that makes the user can adjust the degree of slope of the monitor according to the convenience says Jane Ritonga Market Development Manager for HP's consumer PC Lauching Indonesia when the product is in Sherraton Hotel Embong Malang Road

SURABAYA Vendor HP Hewlett Packard re-issued the latest IT products still carry the concept With Everybody On HP Pavilion Notebook DV6 product release and dv4 In April 2011 these gadgets in the market is going to Surabaya. For HP Pavilion DV6 pegged to the price of Rp13 million and the HP Pavilion dv4 5 Million Worth Rp8 Y Mina said Dimaluw Lead PSG Notebook HP Indonesia during the presentation of these products at a Sheraton Hotel Ballroom Embong Malang Jalan Surabaya

TOKYO Launch AiPad 2 in Asia attract thousands of interested customers who want to be the first official purchase of Apple's tablet in their country.
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Indie Film Studio Film Distribution Through Service Torrent
April 30th, 2011 | Author: ditaliana

Indie Film Studio Film Distribution Through Service Torrent
April 30th, 2011 | Author: ditaliana

NEW YORK If during the service torrent despised the music and film industry as a source of piracy is not the case with an independent film studio from Lithuania who actually took that file sharing site as their official distributor.

A group of researchers from Sweden and Spain, led by Alexei Maklakov biologists conducted a survey of 82 sparrow species including sparrows and other bird species that commonly roost in 12 major cities in central Europe.

Using PHP to Automatic Language Translation
April 30th, 2011 | Author: admin

Translating the language is sometimes in need, and if you want to use PHP code to translate your language into other languages​​, there is the PHP code that you can apply, the example code below is very simple, but you can develop it becomes more complex. The following PHP code to translate the language

CALIFORNIA After the case-based data tracking and location by IOS sticking Android mobile operating system has a number of other defendants, too, One is Windows 7 Phone. It turned out that besides the iPhone and Android phones that have been known to store data anywhere the user travels location Microsoft was also the case.

Jasfilin.com, Cloud-Based Accounting Applications
April 29th, 2011 | Author: admin

Baturaden Indonesia PT Prosperita Systems today launched a new product accounting applications that use cloud computing technology. Products named Jasfilin com is Indonesia's first accounting application based on cloud computing and created by the people of Indonesia.
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Fitness Center Amended So Power Plant
April 29th, 2011 | Author: ditaliana

Adam Boesel former elementary school teacher from Seattle to modify his own fitness center Green Microgym He managed to take advantage of visitors who exercise there to supply electricity for building operations. Utilizing generators Boesel has changed the static bike that he provided there to generate electric bike bicycle he also sold to those who are interested to have.

JAKARTA In the midst of an increasingly competitive mobile industry strictly fixed wireless access Tekom Flexi precisely show significant growth. Community need a reliable telecommunication facilities but it seems to be fulfilled by efficient Flexi said Operations Vice President of Public Relations Telkom Agina Siti Fatimah told through official statement on Friday 29 4 2011. Agina described in 2010 and then Flexi recorded growth of 20 percent with average use of toll-Average Revenue Per User ARPU of about USD 30 thousand per month If at the end of 2009 Flexi 15 million subscribers by the end of 2010, the Flexi subscribers soared to 18 million.