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ClozeX Needleless Wound Closure Receives Prestigious Medical Design Excellence Award for Innovation and Value in Surgery and Emergency Medicine.


WELLESLEY, Mass. -- Clozex Medical LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol.

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 announced today that its line of ClozeX(R) needleless wound and incision closure devices has received the prestigious Medical Design Excellence Award (MDEA MDEA 3,4-Methylenedioxy-N-Ethylamphetamine (empathogenic/psychedelic drug closely related to MDMA)
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). The MDEA competition, sponsored by Medical Device & Diagnostic Industry Magazine (MD&DI), is the premier awards program recognizing the world's most innovative healthcare products.

ClozeX is a hypoallergenic hy·po·al·ler·gen·ic
adj.
Having a decreased tendency to provoke an allergic reaction.


hypoallergenic (hī´pōal´urjen´ik),
adj
, needleless, film device which replaces sutures, staples and glues for skin closure of surgical incisions and traumatic lacerations. These devices provide immediate and excellent cosmetic results without track marks associated with other methods. ClozeX offers a simple, fast, high-precision skin closure and greater safety in avoiding needlestick injuries. The product does not require a removal visit and provides patients with high levels of comfort. Its non-invasive design helps to avoid infection and other potential complications.

"The design represents a paradigm shift A dramatic change in methodology or practice. It often refers to a major change in thinking and planning, which ultimately changes the way projects are implemented. For example, accessing applications and data from the Web instead of from local servers is a paradigm shift. See paradigm.  in approach to wound closure devices," stated Ray Barbuto, Vice President, Manufacturing and Design. "Receiving this award is a great recognition for years of complex design and process development which resulted in a very simple, practical and valuable medical product."

"It is a great honor to receive the award,' noted Ed Ross, Vice President, Sales and Marketing. "We designed ClozeX carefully to address current medical trends and needs of doctors, staff, hospitals and patients. This design award complements the very positive reception ClozeX has received from clinicians and patients."

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 compares products using a range of criteria. These include innovation, design and engineering achievement, benefits to both physicians and patients and cost-effectiveness in manufacturing and healthcare delivery.

Developed with plastic surgeons, ClozeX is designed to provide cosmetic results comparable to subcuticular suturing with notable additional benefits. The product is being used in hospitals in the greater Boston Greater Boston is the area of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts surrounding the city of Boston, Massachusetts. While Metro Boston tends to be the "Inner Core" surrounding the City of Boston, Greater Boston overlaps the North and South Shores, as well as the MetroWest region.  and New England New England, name applied to the region comprising six states of the NE United States—Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. The region is thought to have been so named by Capt.  area.

About Clozex Medical LLC

Clozex Medical is a medical device company specializing in innovative wound closure products.
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