CSI Announces Clinical Trials of Poet IQ Anesthesia Monitoring System.Business Editors/Medical Writers MILWAUKEE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 22, 2002 CRITICARE SYSTEMS, INC inc - /ink/ increment, i.e. increase by one. Especially used by assembly programmers, as many assembly languages have an "inc" mnemonic. Antonym: dec. . (NASDAQ-NMS: CXIM) today announced participation in clinical trials of its new POET IQ(TM) anesthesia monitoring system. These trials represent the final phase prior to market release, having previously received 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. approval. The core technology is the basis for six new CSI CSI Crime Scene Investigator CSI CompuServe, Inc. CSI Commodity Systems, Inc. CSI Commodity Systems Inc. (Boca Raton, FL) CSI Crime Scene Investigation (CBS TV show) CSI Christian Schools International anesthesia products, all scheduled to be released within the calendar year. The operating system consists of an integrated, solid state module based on a proprietary infrared technology developed by CSI. It automatically monitors up to five anesthetic agents Anesthetic agents Medication or drugs that can be injected with a needle or rubbed onto and area to make it numb before a surgical procedure. Anesthesia drugs may also be given by mouth, breathed in as a gas, or injected into a vein or muscle to make a patient plus nitrous oxide nitrous oxide or nitrogen (I) oxide, chemical compound, N2O, a colorless gas with a sweetish taste and odor. Its density is 1.977 grams per liter at STP. It is soluble in water, alcohol, ether, and other solvents. , oxygen and carbon dioxide carbon dioxide, chemical compound, CO2, a colorless, odorless, tasteless gas that is about one and one-half times as dense as air under ordinary conditions of temperature and pressure. . Additionally, the system incorporates a unique, disposable water trap component, also proprietary to CSI. CSI President Emil Soika stated "The new POET IQ(TM) provides automatic agent recognition in a user friendly, economical package. It will be marketed as a configurable system for 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 applications and as a CSI branded product. We are excited about the OEM interest as well as the new market possibilities for CSI that this family of unique products allows us to participate in." CSI (www.csiusa.com) designs, manufactures, and markets cost-effective patient monitoring systems and noninvasive sensors for a wide range of hospitals and alternate health care environments throughout the world. This press release contains forward-looking statements. Such statements refer to the company's beliefs and expectations. Forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described. Such uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the timely completion of new products, regulatory approvals for new products, the risk of new and better technologies, risks relating to international markets, as well as general conditions and competition in the company's markets. Other risks are set forth in CSI's reports and documents filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. |
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