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Hydrocephalus is characterized by head enlargement in infants. Treatment is often a tube (shunt) inserted surgically into a ventricle of the brain to drain excess fluid, but over time the device can often become dislodged or clogged which then requires more procedures and hospitalizations. ...
Researchers in London, Ont., are the first in the world to use a new device for feeding tube insertion that can improve patient safety and reduce the cost of health-care services. ...
ByCoapTech
Gastrostomy tubes often called a G-tube or button feeding tube, is a tube inserted through the belly that brings nutrition directly to the stomach for those who cannot eat enough for adequate nutrition. ...
Often, the endpoint of the disease is insertion of tympanostomy tubes in the eardrum. More than one million tube surgeries are performed in the U.S. alone every year. ...
AventaMed has developed a device for inserting grommets into the eardrum, which prevents the build up of fluid. ...
AventaMed’s project will focus on Pediatric Clinical and Health Services Outcomes following Ear tube (grommet) insertion. NESTcc test cases will help to create a database of real-world evidence which will aim to improve product safety and regulatory decision making across the product lifecycle. ...
The main challenge is to place and position the tube correctly in the GI tract, avoiding the lungs. Current insertion methodologies are limited and it is estimated that 1 million tubes are misplaced annually worldwide. ...
Ambic is updating its dip cup range with the addition of an innovative new Uptake Tube Adaptor which fits to the bottom of the uptake tube. It ensures that minimal teat dip chemical is left in the bottom of the dip cup bottle and prevents the uptake tube from ‘bottoming out’ when the dip cup is depressed to dispense teat dip chemical. ...
The investment will fund AventaMed through FDA (Food and Drug Administration) clearance and commercialisation of the Solo Tympanostomy Tube Device (Solo TTD) which enables the quick and simple insertion of ear grommets. AventaMed was set up by Olive O’Driscoll and John Vaughan in 2013 to find a method of inserting ear ...
The investment – which includes €1.6 million angel funding, the largest single HBAN angel investment to date – will fund AventaMed through FDA (Food and Drug Administration) clearance and commercialisation of the Solo Tympanostomy Tube Device (Solo TTD) which enables the quick and simple insertion of ear grommets. ...
CoapTech will use the technology, initially, to bring to market a medical device allowing non-surgical providers to safely perform feeding tube placement at the bedside through a novel procedure termed PUG (Percutaneous Ultrasound Gastrostomy). PUG is a minimally invasive and more cost-effective method for the placement of permanent gastrostomy (feeding) tubes ...
ByCoapTech