I-Flow Corporation and GE Healthcare Announce Strategic Alliance.Partnership Aims to Explore Innovative Opportunities for Growth in the Anesthesiology anesthesiology (ăn'ĭsthē'zēŏl`əjē), branch of medicine concerned primarily with procedures for rendering patients insensitive to pain, and for supporting life systems under the strains of anesthesia and surgery. Market LAKE FOREST, Calif. -- I-Flow Corporation (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :IFLO) and GE Healthcare GE Healthcare is a $18 billion (USD) unit of General Electric (GE). It employs more than 46,000 people worldwide and is headquartered in Chalfont St. Giles, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom. GE Healthcare is the first GE business segment headquartered outside the United States. (NASDAQ:GE) announced that they have agreed to form a strategic alliance to conduct clinical trials and explore joint opportunities in the anesthesiology market. This exclusive alliance combines resources between the market-leading supplier of regional anesthesiology infusion pumps infusion pump A device designed to deliver drugs and/or 'biologicals', at low doses and at a constant or controllable rate; ↑ rates of delivery in such devices may be associated with local hemolysis, compromising the potential benefits of a calibrated delivery -- I-Flow Corporation -- and the market leader in global ultrasound and global compact ultrasound -- GE Healthcare -- to conduct a clinical study on the use of ultrasound for the placement of continuous peripheral nerve blocks nerve block n. Interruption of the passage of impulses through a neuron by the injection of alcohol or an anesthetic. nerve block, n 1. . Regional pain management systems are one of the fastest growing areas for ultrasound-guided procedures. The initial phase of the alliance between I-Flow Corporation and GE Healthcare is based on conducting a multi-center, prospective, randomized ran·dom·ize tr.v. ran·dom·ized, ran·dom·iz·ing, ran·dom·iz·es To make random in arrangement, especially in order to control the variables in an experiment. clinical study on the use of ultrasound for the placement of continuous peripheral nerve blocks. I-Flow will initiate the clinical study designed to measure the effectiveness of using GE's compact ultrasound products for making nerves easier to find, when I-Flow's ON-Q[R] C-bloc[R] is used. "Numerous synergies exist between I-Flow and GE Healthcare based on our mutual interest to offer technologically advanced systems that redefine recovery and get patients back to normal faster," said Donald M. Earhart, President and 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. of I-Flow Corporation. "We are committed to continuing to deploy resources against the fastest growing part of our broad ON-Q product line, ON-Q C-bloc, and feel privileged to partner with GE Healthcare in this effort." GE Healthcare's LOGIQ e is a compact ultrasound machine that is used to assist physicians in visualization of patient anatomy for interventional and surgical procedures Surgical procedures have long and possibly daunting names. The meaning of many surgical procedure names can often be understood if the name is broken into parts. For example in splenectomy, "ectomy" is a suffix meaning the removal of a part of the body. "Splene-" means spleen. , as well as real-time patient evaluations in emergency settings and sports medicine sports medicine, branch of medicine concerned with physical fitness and with the treatment and prevention of injuries and other disorders related to sports. Knee, leg, back, and shoulder injuries; stiffness and pain in joints; tendinitis; "tennis elbow"; and . About ON-Q ON-Q is now labeled to significantly reduce pain better than narcotics narcotics n. 1) techinically, drugs which dull the senses. 2) a popular generic term for drugs which cannot be legally possessed, sold, or transported except for medicinal uses for which a physician or dentist's prescription is required. and to significantly reduce narcotics intake after surgery. ON-Q therapy was recently upheld as a best practice for post-surgical pain relief and its widespread use was encouraged in an independent study published in the prestigious Journal of American College of Surgeons This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. . The large-scale pain relief meta-analysis included 2,141 patients across a wide range of surgical procedures. ON-Q is a simple yet elegant device that consists of a small balloon pump that holds a local anesthetic local anesthetic n. An agent that, when applied directly to mucous membranes or when injected about the nerves, produces loss of sensation by inhibiting nerve excitation or conduction. (a pain-numbing medicine) and delivers it automatically through a specially designed catheter to provide even distribution of local anesthetic over a wider area, as compared to other catheters, because of its patented wicking wicking Infectious disease Enhanced penetration of liquids, and small pathogens, through minute holes in latex membranes–eg, surgical gloves, which may develop when washed with surfactants, an effect that militates against the re-use of certain materials capabilities. Currently, more than 55 studies on the use of ON-Q have been completed and published or presented and more are underway to demonstrate the benefits of ON-Q in additional areas such as reduced infection risk, combination therapies (e.g., local anesthetic and antibiotic mixtures, a combination of a local anesthetic and an anti-inflammatory), pediatrics and chronic pain. In addition, effective January 1, 2007, Medicare recognized the ON-Q therapy as a payable covered benefit and therefore medically necessary medically necessary Managed care adjective Referring to a covered service or treatment that is absolutely necessary to protect and enhance the health status of a Pt, and could adversely affect the Pt's condition if omitted, in accordance with accepted . To learn more about the benefits of ON-Q visit www.AskYourSurgeon.com. I-Flow Corporation (www.IFLO.com) designs, develops and markets technically advanced, low cost drug delivery systems and services that are redefining the standard of care by providing life enhancing, cost effective solutions for pain relief. About I-Flow I-Flow Corporation (www.IFLO.com) designs, develops and markets technically advanced, low cost drug delivery systems and services that are redefining the standard of care by providing life enhancing, cost effective solutions for pain relief. About GE Healthcare GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and services that are shaping a new age of patient care. Our expertise in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, performance improvement, drug discovery, and biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies is helping clinicians around the world re-imagine new ways to predict, diagnose, inform, treat and monitor disease, so patients can live their lives to the fullest. GE Healthcare's broad range of products and services enable healthcare providers to better diagnose and treat cancer, heart disease, neurological diseases and other conditions earlier. Our vision for the future is to enable a new "early health" model of care focused on earlier diagnosis, pre-symptomatic disease detection and disease prevention. Headquartered in the United Kingdom, GE Healthcare is a $17 billion unit of General Electric Company (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :GE). Worldwide, GE Healthcare employs more than 46,000 people committed to serving healthcare professionals and their patients in more than 100 countries. For more information about GE Healthcare, visit our website at www.gehealthcare.com. "Safe Harbor Safe Harbor 1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated. 2. A form of shark repellent implemented by a target company acquiring a business that is so poorly regulated that the target itself is less attractive. " Statement Statements by the company in this press release and in other reports and statements released by the Company are and will be forward-looking in nature and express the Company's current opinions about trends and factors that may impact future operating results. Statements that use words such as "may," "will," "should," "believes," "predicts," "estimates," "projects," "anticipates" or "expects" or use similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. 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