ACIST CVi | The Journey to Success: Dr. Maurice Alston´s Inspiring Story

 

Are you looking for inspiration to make a compelling case for investing in the ACIST CVi? Or are you looking for a success story to inspire your next new account?

Read about Dr. Maurice Alston’s, Interventional Cardiologist at Tennova Medical Center in Tennessee, experience with reducing CI-AKI incidences through the adoption of the CVi system.

The article details Dr. Alston´s experience with contrast-induced acute kidney injury (CI-AKI) and the challenges faced while using the hand manifold. It discusses the importance of limiting contrast volume to prevent CI-AKI and the benefits of using the ACIST CVi, which allows for easy adjustment of contrast flow and volume, also featuring the air column detection sensor to prevent air embolism.

What I found particularly inspiring about this article is how Dr. Alston was able to convince his hospital to invest in and adopt the CVi System, resulting in a reduction in AKI incidences. The article also touches on the challenges faced during the transition to the CVi System, and Dr. Alston´s effort to get other physicians to reduce their contrast volume settings.

Read Dr. Alston´s journey and learn how to convince your next new hospital to invest in the ACIST CVi. I highly recommend to read this article.

https://www.dicardiology.com/content/blogs/blog-making-case-variable-rate-contrast-injector

The link will also be added to Pulse and the  Distributor Portal under: Angiography > Promotional Tools

Best regards,

Johann Neudorf

Product Manager – Angiography EMEA

The new ACIST CVi^® Interactive Instruction Tool is now available on our website:  https://acist.com/int/cvi-interactive-tool-intl/

Help your customers with troubleshooting and training by sharing this link with them!

We are excited to introduce the new CVi Introduction Videos which are a great tool to share with your customers!

With limited access to cath labs making it more difficult to train new accounts and hospital staff, customers expecting 24/7 support, and an increase of digitalization, it is clear that our world and our customers’ needs are changing.

In addition, we need to overcome the resistance some nurses and techs have, as they sometimes think, at first glance, that the setup of our systems is too complicated.

To help overcome many of these challenges, we have created a set of 7 CVi Instruction Videos, designed to increase the user learning curve, improve the training experience, and provide an overall increase in confidence when operating the CVi.

1. Introduction to ACIST CVi
2. System Overview
3. Consumables Overview
4. System Setup
5. End Case and Next Procedure Setup
6. System Shutdown
7. Troubleshooting

The videos are now available on ACIST.com, Youtube, and the Distributor Portal.

Help your customers by sharing the videos with them!

Dear Partners,

As we approach the end of another year, we would like to take this opportunity to express our best wishes for the holidays and thank you for all your contributions to another year filled with successes and achievements.  Unforeseen circumstances out of everyone’s control made it challenging at times, but your relentless support to the business and our customers was truly remarkable and we appreciate your commitment to ACIST.

We were able to support our customers in their efforts to provide their patients with the safest and best possible treatment, and in the end that is what matters most.

We would like to sincerely thank all of you for your efforts and ongoing support in the past year and your commitment to our customers and our patients.

We wish you and your loved ones a joyous holiday season and a happy and successful 2024!

Kind regards on behalf of the entire ACIST team

 

Stefano Serravalle, Arthur Tjin, Carlos Cruz, Frederik Dupan

 

 

 

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Dear Partners,

As we approach the end of another year, I would like to take this opportunity to express my best wishes for the holidays and thank you all for your contributions to our business and customers over the past 12 months.

At ACIST, 2022 was another busy and successful year! Working together we made good progress toward our strategic goals despite significant challenges – not the least of which were ongoing disruptions from the pandemic and the Ukraine crisis that continue to have such a substantial impact on our work and home lives, as well as on the lives of our customers.

It was also a transformative year for ACIST, in which we unified into Bracco Medical Technologies, bringing together our cardiovascular (CV) solutions with the Bracco line of diagnostic imaging (DI) solutions, further strengthening our portfolio of medical devices. Together, we are unified in our common journey to provide insights beyond the image that give health care providers the power of knowledge to transform patient outcomes. We are committed to our vision that by the end of 2025, Bracco Medical Technologies will make a difference in the lives of 75 million patients.

I’m grateful for the incredible work the ACIST team has done, especially in light of such an unusual year. It is not just the ACIST team that inspires me, it’s also our distribution partners  who have persevered. We saw you engaging with us and our customers in so many ways and you have all demonstrated that when it comes to ACIST and our distribution partners, the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

I would like to sincerely thank all of you for your efforts and ongoing support in the past year and your commitment to our customers and our patients.

I  wish you and your loved ones a joyous holiday season and a happy and successful 2023!

Brad Fox

President & CEO

BRACCO Medical Technologies

www.acist.com

www.braccomedtech.com

 

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​​Frederik Dupan

 

​Although Frederik is new in this role, he certainly is not new to ACIST, and many of you may have already met him at EuroPCR or one of our ACIST meetings. 

​Frederik comes from Belgium and joined ACIST in September 2009 as Territory Sales Manager for Belgium and Luxemburg, where he is a well-known face in the cath labs and appreciated by our customers for his hands-on business approach and jovial personality. Frederik has over 25 years of sales experience in medical device, of which 18 years in interventional cardiology. Husband and father of 2 girls and his four-legged friend Simba, and above all a bon vivant who loves cycling, motorcycling and beer. ​

Enjoy life and life is better with Belgian beers’

​​Frederik can be reached on +32 473408500 and frederik.dupan@bracco.com

​Frederik will be responsible for all EMEAI territories except for Algeria, Greece, Bulgaria and Portugal which will fall under Carlos:
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​Carlos Cruz

 

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​Carlos has been with ACIST for nearly 3 years as Territory Manager for the Paris area and North of France. He will continue in his current role and take on additional responsibilities, working with our distributors in Algeria,  Bulgaria, Greece and Portugal.​

​Carlos has a scientific background with over 20 years of sales experience in medical devices, of which the last couple years in interventional cardiology.​

Carlos is a former kickboxer and international pool player. He is married and has two kids, a boy and a girl. A French native with Portuguese parents, he speaks French, Spanish, Portuguese and English.​

​His motto is: ‘Perseverance overcomes all things’​

Carlos can be reached on +33 (6) 31 48 45 59 and carlos.cruz@bracco.com

ACIST Virtual Distributor Meeting ‘Build on The Best’ on Tuesday 7 March

Join our Virtual Distributor Meeting ‘Build on The Best’ on Tuesday 7 March from 15:00-17:30 CET!

During this 2,5 hours meeting, we will share ACIST Corporate and Product Updates, and there is opportunity to meet ACIST’s new General Manager and your distributor managers.

This year the virtual distributor meeting will be livestreamed via zoom from the auditorium in our European Office in The Netherlands, with presentations from several of your ACIST business partners delivered to you via live broadcast.

Unfortunately the global time difference made it impossible to have all our global distributors join this meeting and a recording of the meeting will be made available to our AsiaPac distributors by your distributor manager Arthur Tjin.

All our Americas and EMEAI distributors should have already received an invitation for this meeting, but it you haven’t or if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Marilene den Exter Blokland at acistmarketing@bracco.com 

 

WATCH NOW ON  DEMAND: ACIST RXi^® & HDi^® Optimizing PCI using FFR and HD-IVUS Webinars

All 4 videos from the 2022 webinar series ‘Optimizing PCI using FFR and HD-IVUS’ from Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam,  are now available on the ACIST website and YouTube channel.

 The Erasmus webinar series is an educational program that was designed for physicians who that want to learn more about using HD IVUS in clinical Practice and is led by senior interventional cardiologist Joost Daemen, MD, PhD and percutaneous imaging specialists Jurgen M.R. Ligthart and Karen Witberg, who all have extensive experience with this technology in their daily clinical practice

It provides an excellent opportunity for physicians who have no or limited experience with using High Definition IVUS and RXi in clinical practice or who would like to expand their experience and area of application. The ACIST Training program is structured from Basic to Advanced in 4 webinars that can be watched as a complete series but also individually.

ACIST YOUTUBE

ACIST.COM/MEDICAL EDUCATION

 

 

 

For more information on previous and upcoming ACIST webinars: Olivera Kotevska,  olivera.kotevska@bracco.com

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