Pacific Medical Systems ... NEWS ...
  Monday, January 3rd,  2005
Medi-Stim ASA appoints Pacific Medical Systems as its distributor for Asia

  

Pacific Medical Systems has been appointed as the Asia distributor for Medi-Stim ASA, the developer of ultrasound based guidance and quality assurance systems for Cardiac and Vascular Surgery from 2005. With its base in Hong Kong, Pacific Medical Systems will distribute and coordinate the marketing, sales and distribution of Medi-Stim's range of products in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, Sri Lanka and Nepal.

Announcing the appointment and the geographical expansion today, the President and CEO of Medi- Stim, Mr. Arne Grip said: "The Asian markets with its vast populations and increasing awareness in coronary disease offer exciting potential opportunities for Medi-Stim. We are delighted to develop and grow Medi-Stim's presence through Pacific Medical Systems, which has impressive professionalism, in-depth understanding of the local markets, industry players and dedication to meet customers needs".
Mr. Jules Flach, CEO and Founder of Pacific Medical Systems said: "We are delighted with the opportunities presented. Asia is experiencing rapid changes in life style which brings along changes in dietary habits, increase in stress, and lack of physical exercise, cigarette smoking and increase in environmental pollution. All these are typical contributors to accelerated vascular and especially coronary disease. We are eager to play an important role in offering Medi-Stim's unique products and technology as part of the critical surgical processes".
VeriQ, the new system from Medi-Stim is an intraoperative diagnostic system that utilizes ultrasonography to guide surgeons to successfully plan and accomplish surgical interventions. The clinical indications for the device are:
Accurate transit time blood volume and Doppler velocity flow measurements during cardiovascular-, vascular-, transplantation-and neuro-surgery.
Simultaneous measurements of blood pressure, vascular resistance, interfaced physiological signals and other derived parameters during these procedures.
Detection of normal and abnormal blood volume and Doppler velocity flow patterns during these procedures.
The benefits for the surgeon include Intra-operative guidance through location of intramural vessels, detection and quantification of stenosis, patency verification and documentation post surgery.
Pacific Medical Systems and Medi-Stim will showcase the VeriQ at the 13th Annual Meeting of the Asian Society for Cardiovascular Surgery (ASCVS), which will be held in February 5-8, 2005, Chiang Mai, Thailand.
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Background Medi-Stim:
Medi-Stim develops, manufactures and distributes solutions for cardiac and vascular surgery.
The Company's main focus is intra operative quality control applications for cardiac and vascular surgeons. Medi-Stim is the leading provider of quality control applications for use in the operating theatre during cardiac and vascular surgery. The products are developed to assist the surgeon and the operating team during the surgical procedures and are designed to verify and document quality. Medi-Stim's state-of-the-art applications are based on ultrasound-, transit-time- and Doppler-technologies.
Medi-Stim was founded in 1984 and was listed on the SMB-list on Oslo Stock Exchange in May 2004. The headquarter is in Oslo, Norway with manufacturing in Horten, Norway. Medi-Stim has a global distribution through a combination of selected distributors and own direct sales organizations in Norway and Germany. Medi-Stim Norge AS and Medi-Stim Deutschland GmbH are also selling third parties products for the cardiac and vascular market. In the US Medi-Stim has its own service and sales support organization.
Medi-Stim's strategy is to play a key role in performing and developing quality control of cardiac and vascular surgery. Medi-Stim plans to contribute in the development of minimal invasive surgery.
 
  Mission Statement:
Pacific Medical Systems provides quality solutions for the healthcare professionals in delivering superior diagnosis and optimum patient care through cutting-edge technology.		  
 
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