Careside Analyzer Wins Prestigious Design Award.Business Editors & Health/Medical Writers NEW YORK--(BW HealthWire)--June 7, 2000 The Careside Analyzer(TM), a comprehensive point-of-care (POC (Proof Of Concept) See PoC exploit. POC - Point Of Contact ) blood testing instrument, was named the gold winner in the In Vitro Diagnostics In vitro diagnostic (IVD) tests are medical tests conducted in a test tube, or more generally in a controlled environment outside a living organism. In vitro means in glass in Latin. category at the third annual 2000 Medical Design Excellence Awards competition. The award was announced Wednesday at the Medical Design and Manufacturing (MD&M) East 2000 Conference and Exposition in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . "We are very proud to have won this prestigious award, which recognizes innovation and engineering excellence in medical product design," said W. Vickery Stoughton, chairman and CEO of Careside Inc. (AMEX AMEX See: American Stock Exchange :CSA)(CSA.W), the Culver City-based manufacturer of the Careside Analyzer. "It further validates the technology and design of the Careside Analyzer, which allows healthcare practitioners to provide patients with a comprehensive menu of fast and accurate test results in various point-of-care settings." The Careside Analyzer is the first single POC instrument to offer such a broad test menu, encompassing 38 FDA-cleared or exempt tests in the categories of chemistry, electrochemistry electrochemistry, science dealing with the relationship between electricity and chemical changes. Of principal interest are the reactions that take place between electrodes and the electrolytes in electric and electrolytic cells (see electrolysis), as well as the and coagulation coagulation (kōăg'y  lā`shən), the collecting into a mass of minute particles of a solid dispersed throughout a liquid (a sol), usually followed by the precipitation or . The desktop analyzer performs up to eight tests at a time, while delivering results in just four to 12 minutes. Its test cartridges utilize the same "gold standard" testing formats used on expensive analyzers in clinical laboratories: spectral transmittance, reflectance and electrochemical electrochemical /elec·tro·chem·i·cal/ (-kem´i-k'l) pertaining to interaction or interconversion of chemical and electrical energies. e·lec·tro·chem·i·cal adj. . Careside also offers the H-2000 hematology analyzer as a companion to the Careside Analyzer. The nine-member MDEA awards panel selected the Careside Analyzer for its small footprint, its ability to deliver accurate test results in minutes and data storage and transmission capabilities. "We are seeing more point-of-care diagnostic devices that eliminate the need to send patients or materials to the lab and that reduce the cost and time required for patient care," said panelist Joseph Dyro, Ph.D., president of Biomedical Resource Group in Setauket, N.Y. Careside Inc. is one of the world's leading developers of advanced point-of-care blood testing technology. The company's POC chemistry instrument and its hematology instrument have received FDA market clearance. For more information on the company, call 888/698-2273 or access www.Careside.com. |
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