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CoapTech PUG System Study For Safer Procedure Performance On COVID-Positive Patients
The novel human coronavirus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), continues to infect naïve populations causing surges of critically ill patients who can survive their acute critical illness. Tracheostomy and gastrostomy are commonly paired procedures that bridge patients from their acute to subacute critical illness. Both are aerosolgenerating procedures that can ...
By CoapTech
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Patient Enrollment is Complete in the DOD-Funded Study of Extracorporeal Hemopurification of Critically Ill COVID-19 Patients
MARTINEZ, Calif. – PURIFY OBS, an observational study of critically-ill COVID patients treated with the Seraph® 100 Microbind® Affinity Blood Filter (Seraph 100), has recently completed enrollment. A multicenter effort led by the US Department of Defense (DOD) published interim results in April 2021. Observations included dramatic improvement in survival and reduction in median ICU ...
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Treatment for critically ill COVID patients results in significant improvement in survival rate according to new study
Patient survival doubles when Seraph 100 is used earlier during ICU stay MARTINEZ, Calif. – Critically ill patients treated with ExThera Medical’s Seraph® 100 Microbind® Affinity Blood Filter (Seraph 100) within 60 hours of ICU admission experienced a survival rate double that of patients treated after being in the ICU for 60 or more hours, according to a newly released ...
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ExThera Medical Partners with Predicate Healthcare Performance Group to Expand Reach of Proven COVID-19 Treatment
MARTINEZ, Calif. – ExThera Medical and Predicate Healthcare Performance Group (Predicate HPG) have entered into a commercial partnership agreement in the United States for ExThera’s Seraph® 100 Microbind® Affinity Blood Filter (Seraph 100). “In Predicate HPG’s ongoing efforts to deliver evidence-based, technology-enabled care to every patient, we are pleased to ...
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ExThera Medical and Asahi Kasei Medical Enter into Partnership to Expand Reach of Treatment for the Critically Ill
MARTINEZ, Calif. – ExThera Medical and Asahi Kasei Medical, a core operating company of the Asahi Kasei Group, have entered into an exclusive distribution agreement in Japan for ExThera’s Seraph® 100 Microbind® Affinity Blood Filter (Seraph 100). Per the agreement structure, ExThera Medical and Asahi Kasei Medical will collaborate to obtain regulatory approval of Seraph 100 ...
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Lakhmir Chawla, MD, of Silver Creek Pharmaceuticals Joins ExThera Medical Board of Directors
Professor Lakhmir Chawla, MD, has joined the board of directors of ExThera Medical Corporation, a privately held medical technology company whose Seraph 100 Microbind Affinity Blood Filter is authorized in the United States to treat critically ill COVID-19 patients. Dr. Chawla also serves as the Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board at the company Dr. Chawla is an internationally renowned ...
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Specific Diagnostics Announces that David Barreca, former GenMark Sales Leader, Joins Specific as
Specific Diagnostics today announced the appointment of David Barreca as Vice President of US Sales. David was a key member of GenMark’s sales leadership team, most recently a Senior Director managing a team of Account Executives that drove growth of the GenMark infectious disease diagnostics product, contributing the sales growth that led to GenMark’s acquisition by Roche Diagnostics ...
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ExThera Medical & Fresenius Medical Care Sign Distribution Agreement for Seraph 100 Blood Purification Device in Mexico
Seraph 100 used for Blood Purification and Pathogen Reduction in Sepsis and COVID-19 Treatments MARTINEZ, Calif. – ExThera Medical and Fresenius Medical Care, the world’s leading provider of products and services for individuals with renal diseases, announced the expanded distribution of ExThera’s Seraph® 100 Microbind® Affinity Blood Filter in Mexico. In 2021, ExThera ...
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CytoSorbents Announces Publication of U.S. CTC Multicenter Registry Results Using CytoSorb in Critically Ill COVID-19 Patients on Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO)
CytoSorbents Corporation (NASDAQ: CTSO), a leader in the treatment of life-threatening conditions in the intensive care unit and cardiac surgery using blood purification via its proprietary polymer adsorption technology, announces the publication of results from the Company’s U.S. CytoSorb Therapy in COVID-19 (CTC) retrospective registry in the peer-reviewed journal, Frontiers in Medicine. ...
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Aerogen leading the way for inhaled COVID-19 vaccine delivery
Company’s aerosol drug delivery technology used in Phase 1 clinical trial to deliver inhaled type-5 vector-based COVID-19 vaccine (Ad5-nCoV) in adults without COVID-19 from China The Aerogen Solo is a closed-system, single-patient-use aerosol drug delivery technology1 that mitigates the transmission of patient-generated infectious aerosol during ventilation2–7. Hospitals around the ...
By Aerogen
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Liberate Medical Presents Data from its Pilot Trial of VentFree, a Muscle Stimulator for Mechanically Ventilated Patients, at the American Thoracic Society 2019 International Conference
Liberate Medical, a clinical-stage medical device company, developing novel electrical muscle stimulation devices that non-invasively address pulmonary conditions, today announced the results from its recently completed pilot trial of the VentFree Muscle Stimulator during an oral presentation at the American Thoracic Society International Conference (“ATS”) in Dallas, TX. ...
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New Instrument for Automated Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing Provides Gold Standard-Level Minimum Inhibitory Concentration (MIC) Accuracy[1]
A new benchtop automated reading and incubation system for antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) provides microbiology laboratories with the accurate MIC results that clinicians need to confidently select an effective antibiotic for critically-ill patients while safeguarding future patient care through more successful antimicrobial stewardship. Backed by a long history of AST accuracy, the ...
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Data from Eli Lilly’s COV-BARRIER trial shows baricitinib reduced deaths in hospitalised COVID-19 patients by 38%
The latest data published in Eli Lilly’s Phase 3 randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled study (COV-BARRIER) shows the largest clinical effect reported to date for a reduction in mortality in the COVID-19 patient population. Early in the pandemic, BenevolentAI researchers identified Baricitinib as a potential treatment for COVID-19 and published the hypothesis in The Lancet ...
By Benevolent
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Flosonics Medical selected as a winner of Vale’s COVID-19 Challenge
The company was one of two Northern Ontario organizations selected to receive financial support aimed at propelling innovative COVID-19 solutions into the marketplace Flosonics Medical was one of two Northern Ontario organizations selected as a winner of Vale’s 2020 COVID-19 Challenge. The challenge, which was launched in Canada on April 3, 2020, aimed to propel innovative COVID-19 ...
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ExThera’s Affinity Blood Filter Is Used to Treat COVID-19 Patients
Treatment of COVID-19 with ExThera’s Seraph®100 Microbind® Affinity Blood Filter (Seraph 100) has begun in hospitals in Germany and Italy. Seraph 100 treatments of COVID-19 are also expected to begin soon in France and the USA. Seraph 100 is the only ‘hemoperfusion device’ approved for the reduction of pathogens in blood. In recent EU clinical cases improved lung ...
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Michael Porter of Harvard Business School has Joined the Board of Directors of ExThera Medical Corporation
Michael Porter, Ph.D., has joined the board of directors of ExThera Medical Corporation, a privately held medical technology company focused on the therapeutic reduction of drug-resistant pathogens and sepsis mediators in whole blood. ExThera’s Seraph® 100 Microbind® Affinity Blood Filter (Seraph 100) has a CE Mark in Europe for the treatment of a wide range of bloodstream ...
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Ondine’s photodisinfection kills ESKAPE pathogens
Canadian life sciences company, Ondine Biomedical Inc. (LON: OBI), this week presented an in vitro study at the World Anti-Microbial Resistance Congress, in Maryland, USA on the effectiveness of its photodisinfection technology against the group of highly infectious and antibiotic-resistant bacteria known as ESKAPE pathogens.[i] ESKAPE pathogens are the most virulent and dangerous pathogens ...
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CARMAT announces a new commercial implant of its Aeson artificial heart at University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein in Kiel, Germany
CARMAT (FR0010907956, ALCAR), the designer and developer of the world’s most advanced total artificial heart, aiming to provide a therapeutic alternative for people suffering from end-stage biventricular heart failure, today announces the third implant of its Aeson® bioprosthetic artificial heart in a commercial setting. This new commercial implant of the Aeson® device was ...
By Carmat
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Whooping Cough Outbreak in California May Set a 55 Year Record
Ultraviolet Germicidal Technology from UVDI helps prevent the spread of infectious diseases by destroying bacteria, fungi and viruses. Whooping cough, also known as pertussis, is a highly contagious bacterial disease that causes violent coughing. This month, California health officials reported an epidemic of whopping cough that has already claimed the lives of 9 children and caused over ...
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CDC Reports California has New ‘Superbug’ Infections
The environmental professionals at Clark Seif Clark (CSC) help medical facilities and infection control professionals combat the growing threat of drug-resistant microbial contaminants. A deadly bacterium with a gene that produces an enzyme that allows it to disable carbapenam antibiotics was recently reported on by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The enzyme, Klebsiella ...
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