INTEGRIS Southwest Medical Center Adopts SurgiCount Safety-Sponge(TM) System Technology for All of Its Operating Rooms
31 Luglio 2006 - 5:04PM
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INTEGRIS Southwest Joins INTEGRIS Baptist Medical Center in
Adopting the SurgiCount Medical System to Prevent Retained Sponges
After Surgery SurgiCount Medical, a wholly owned subsidiary of
Patient Safety Technologies, Inc. (AMEX:PST), announced today that
it has entered into a three-year agreement to provide its patented
Safety-Sponge(TM) System for the prevention of retained sponges
after surgery to INTEGRIS Southwest Medical Center, a member of
Oklahoma's largest not-for-profit health care organization.
SurgiCount has received an initial purchase order from INTEGRIS
Southwest for all of the operating rooms at this facility.
Financial terms were not disclosed. "By reducing or eliminating the
risk of retained sponges and enhancing the efficiency of our
surgical teams, we believe that the Safety-Sponge System will
deliver a real improvement in surgical outcomes," said Marva
Harrison, Administrative Director of Surgical Services at INTEGRIS
Southwest. "We are pleased that our patients will now be able to
benefit directly from this exciting new technology." "Southwest
Medical Center is the second hospital in the eleven-hospital
INTEGRIS system to order the Safety-Sponge System and make it a
standard of care in their hospital," noted Bill Adams, Chief
Executive Officer of SurgiCount. "More and more hospitals are
recognizing the critical role of our Safety-Sponge System in
reducing or eliminating dangerous and costly sponge-counting
errors. Our system is currently being evaluated by other major
hospital networks in California, Florida, Maine, Massachusetts,
Missouri and Oklahoma, and we expect to win additional supply
agreements soon." This contract is one of the two contracts
SurgiCount received that was announced in our press release dated
July 25, 2006. Details on the second hospital will follow shortly.
SurgiCount Medical received FDA 510(k) clearance to market and sell
its Safety-Sponge System in March 2006, and is the only
computer-assisted system for counting sponges cleared by the FDA.
The Safety-Sponge System is an integrated turn-key program of
thermally affixed, data matrix tagged surgical sponges,
line-of-sight scanning technology, and documentation that offers
surgeons and hospitals a solution to gossypiboma -- the term for
surgical sponges accidentally left inside a human body after
surgery. Based on estimates and assumptions made by Patient Safety
Technologies management, gossypiboma occurs in an estimated 3,000
to 5,000 surgical procedures each year in the United States alone,
and liability settlements and other costs related to retained
sponges amount to an estimated $500 million to $750 million
annually. About INTEGRIS Health INTEGRIS Health owns, manages or
leases hospitals, primary care clinics, mental health facilities,
rehabilitation centers, fitness centers, hospice services, home
health agencies and independent living centers throughout the state
of Oklahoma. INTEGRIS Health is an Oklahoma-owned, not-for-profit
corporation. Our mission is to improve the health of the people and
the communities we serve. More information about INTEGRIS Health
facilities and services is available on our home page at
www.integrisOK.com or by calling the INTEGRIS HealthLine at
405-951-2277 or toll free at 800-951-2277. About SurgiCount and the
Safety-Sponge(TM) System SurgiCount Medical's Safety-Sponge System
works much like a grocery store check-out system. Every surgical
sponge and towel is pre-labeled by the manufacturer with an
individual and unique bar coded label, and a scanning counter is
used to read and record the labels. No change is required in a
hospital's established counting procedures: sponges are counted and
recorded by the system at the beginning of the procedure and again
as they are removed from the patient. For more information, visit
www.surgicountmedical.com. About Patient Safety Technologies, Inc.
(AMEX:PST) Patient Safety Technologies, Inc. (PST) is a holding
company that owns assets in various businesses. Its wholly-owned
subsidiary, SurgiCount Medical, Inc., is a developer and
manufacturer of patient safety products and services. For more
information on Patient Safety Technologies, Inc., please contact
the company directly at 310-895-7750, or by email at
info@patientsafetytechnologies.com or
www.patientsafetytechnologies.com. Forward-Looking Statements This
press release contains certain forward-looking statements. These
forward-looking statements can generally be identified as such
because the context of the statement will include words such as
Patient Safety Technologies plans, expects, should, believes,
anticipates or words of similar import. Stockholders, potential
investors and other readers are cautioned that these
forward-looking statements are predictions based only on current
information and expectations that are inherently subject to risks
and uncertainties that could cause future events or results to
differ materially from those set forth or implied by the
forward-looking statements. Certain of those risks and
uncertainties are discussed in our filings with the Securities and
Exchange Commission, including our annual report on Form 10-K and
quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. These forward-looking statements
are only made as of the date of this press release and Patient
Safety Technologies does not undertake any obligation to publicly
update such forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent events
or circumstances.
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