“When You Are Informed, You Hold the Power” – Sharon Huff, SCOUT® Patient
Sharon Huff is a retired schoolteacher in Ontario, California, where she and her husband live and enjoy an active lifestyle. Like many women around the world, the pandemic disrupted her routine mammography screening, delaying her appointment by a few months. When Sharon was finally able to have a mammogram, a suspicious lesion was discovered. She […]
Merit Medical Launches the basixALPHA™ Inflation Device
Merit Medical is proud to launch the basixALPHA Inflation Device, an analog inflation syringe with a 30 ATM capability and 20 mL capacity, designed for use in a variety of interventional procedures. At Merit Medical, we understand that inflation devices are staples for any interventional practice. By working closely with interventional radiologists and interventional cardiologists, […]
Merit Streamlines basixCOMPAK™ Kits, Provides Options to Better Meet Clinician Needs
For nearly 30 years, Merit Medical has been a market leader in inflation device technology. By listening to and applying product feedback, we’re able to use this information to innovate inflation device solutions to meet clinician requirements of faster inflation, accuracy, and reliability. To enhance our inflation device offerings, starting this month we’ve streamlined kits […]
Give Yourself a Pay Raise in 2021—Work at Merit
The New Year is a prime time for job seekers. Despite the pandemic, “changing careers” is still a major job prediction and trend expected for 2021. When looking for a new gig, it’s no surprise that the number-one factor employees and job seekers look for is salary. If you’re one of these individuals searching for a new career […]
SwiftNINJA® Overcomes Challenges of Selective Catheterization
Selective catheterization can be associated with several challenges, such as acute angle branching, blood vessel tortuosity, and small targeted vessel diameter.1 The SwiftNINJA Steerable Microcatheter by Merit Medical, a straight tip catheter that articulates up to 180 degrees in opposing directions, is designed to rapidly select challenging vascular ostium. A case report by Soyama et al.1 found multiple benefits to using […]
Looking for a Career Change? Your Experience Is Valued at Merit—Here’s Why.
As a leader in the healthcare industry, Merit Medical employs innovative and dedicated people across the globe. Here, we offer more than just a job. This is a place to make a difference, form friendships, and build a career. While always looking for employees at all levels of experience, Merit is actively recruiting seasoned workers […]
Arcadia™ Steerable Technology Provides Unique Benefits to Vertebral Augmentation Treatment
Vertebral compression fractures (VCFs) are the most common fracture in patients with osteoporosis.1 Although painful and debilitating, VCFs often go untreated. To help care for this patient population, Merit Medical innovated the Arcadia, an intuitive balloon-assisted vertebral augmentation (kyphoplasty) system. Designed to be used with the steerable PowerCURVE® Navigating Osteotome, the Arcadia offers several unique […]
Merit’s Journey Through COVID-19: A Video Series
For more than thirty years, Merit Medical® has made it a priority to deliver life-changing products and services, all while ensuring the safety of employees, customers, and patients. THIS TIME IS NO DIFFERENT. The COVID-19 pandemic is without a doubt an unprecedented time in the history of healthcare, but it is also one that has […]
Endovascular Balloon Use Increases Survival in Patients with SVC Tears
Superior vena cava (SVC) tears are one of the most-deadly complications in transvenous lead extraction procedures. Although rare, occurring at 0.46% of all lead extractions performed, more than half of these SVC tears end in mortality.1 A multi-year analysis published in Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology, showed that when an endovascular balloon was used, patients undergoing […]