Bioconnect Medical Receives 510k Approval to Market Patient Monitoring Cables and Leadwires.Business Editors SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 29, 2001 RF Industries' (Nasdaq:RFIL) Bioconnect Division today announced that its 510(k) application to market "Bioconnect Patient Monitoring Cables and Leadwires" has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA FDA abbr. Food and Drug Administration FDA, n.pr See Food and Drug Administration. FDA, n.pr the abbreviation for the Food and Drug Administration. ), effective May 23, 2001. The application was filed on March 12, 2001. "The first of our new line of cable interconnect products, `Biomedical bi·o·med·i·cal adj. 1. Of or relating to biomedicine. 2. Of, relating to, or involving biological, medical, and physical sciences. Interconnect Systems,' include a wide variety of molded cables and lead wires used to connect patients to medical electronic monitoring devices, including EKG EKG: see electrocardiography. , cardiac, blood pressure, EEG EEG: see electroencephalography. (brain wave) and infant apnea monitors in hospitals, clinics, doctor offices, ambulances and in the home," said Dick Roberts, president of Bioconnect Medical Products. Roberts noted that cables and interconnects for medical monitoring applications are typically short-lived electrical products, which are replaced frequently to ensure maximum performance. "This is a $50 million annual market in which Bioconnect has over 20 years of experience designing, manufacturing and marketing similar interconnect products to hospitals, device manufactures (OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and ), hospital dealers and distributors. We will introduce this new product line at the upcoming June 10, 2001, Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI AAMI Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation AAMI Age Associated Memory Impairment AAMI American Ammunition, Inc (stock symbol) AAMI Australian Associated Motor Insurers Limited AAMI African-American Male Initiative ) convention in Baltimore, Md.," he said. RF Industries' (www.RFindustries.com) Bioconnect division designs, manufactures and distributes specialized electrical cabling and interconnect products to the medical monitoring market. RFI's Connectors division designs radio frequency (RF) coaxial connectors used in personal communication systems (PCS (1) (Personal Communications Services) Refers to wireless services that emerged after the U.S. government auctioned commercial licenses in 1994 and 1995. This radio spectrum in the 1. ), radio communications, test instruments, PC LANs and antenna devices, and the Neulink division designs and manufactures wireless digital data transmission products for industrial monitoring, linking wide-area networks, GPS tracking and locations systems. The statements contained in this release that are not historical facts may be deemed to contain forward-looking statements with respect to events, the occurrence of which involve risks and uncertainties, including, without limitation, uncertainties detailed in the company's Securities and Exchange Commission filings. |
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