Core Venetec Team Reunites at Access Scientific.SAN DIEGO -- Access Scientific, Inc., the company commercializing The Wand[TM] All-in-One Micro-Access Safety Introducer, has reunited the core management team from recently acquired Venetec International. The company will introduce The Wand in first quarter 2008, making available the accelerated Tal-Seldinger technique, for faster and safer over-wire vascular access. The team includes: * Steve Bierman, M.D., Interim CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . Bierman invented the StatLock[R] line of catheter stabilization devices and founded Venetec International to commercialize StatLock. In 2006, Venetec was sold to CR Bard, Inc. for $166 million. * Richard Pluth, COO. Pluth formerly served Venetec as its Vice President of Operations. At Venetec, he successfully launched one to three new products per quarter for five years in succession. * Albert Misajon, Vice President Regulatory Affairs and Quality Assurance. Misajon held the identical position at Venetec, where he successfully ushered the company through 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. field inspections, ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. certifications, and quality inspections from numerous 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 device companies. * Pat Tan, Senior Executive Assistant. In a similar position at Venetec, Tan played a vital role in enhancing the productivity of the company's executives. The Wand was originally conceived by Dr. Michael Tal, Associate Professor of Diagnostic Radiology at Yale University, to meet the need for a safer, faster way of introducing catheters and sheaths into the body. Dr. Bierman and Janelle Anderson, Ph.D., Access Scientific's President, built on Dr. Tal's innovation in furthering The Wand's development. The market for The Wand is approximately $600 million annually--roughly the same as that of the current Seldinger Technique (needle, guidewire, dilator dilator /di·la·tor/ (di-lat´er) 1. a structure that dilates, or an instrument used to dilate. 2. dilator muscle. di·la·tor n. 1. , sheath/catheter) market. The Wand, an all-in-one introducer, will enable interventional radiologists and other clinicians to reduce the 12-step Seldinger Technique to a 4-step procedure designed to provide increased safety to both patients and healthcare workers. This accelerated Tal-Seldinger Technique is specifically designed to eliminate the risk of accidental needlestick injury as well as guide-wire contamination and embolization embolization /em·bo·li·za·tion/ (em?bo-li-za´shun) 1. the process or condition of becoming an embolus. 2. therapeutic introduction of a substance into a vessel in order to occlude it. . About Access Scientific Access Scientific is committed to delivering innovative, quality vascular access products to improve the speed, simplicity, and safety of minimally-invasive and infusion therapy procedures. The Tal-Seldinger platform will be the basis for multiple iterations of The Wand for PICC PICC Peripherally-inserted central catheter Critical care An IV catheter inserted in the superior vena cava for long-term infusion of bolus or continuous delivery of therapeutics or TPN–drugs, fluids, nutrients, chemotherapy. Cf Catheter. and CVC See CSC. insertions, micro-access and other vascular access and drainage procedures. For further information on the company, go to www.accessscientific.com, or call 858-259-0887. |
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